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CBWC: Faces in Rocky Places

Cee’s black and white challenge this week is Faces in Things. A week ago in Writer’s Quotes Wednesdays, I accidentally found a troll at Kings Canyon National Park. Today I found him resting as well as overseeing the canyon. He’s definitely hiding more in his resting shot. His face sags a bit like mine when…

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Cee’s black and white challenge this week is Faces in Things. A week ago in Writer’s Quotes Wednesdays, I accidentally found a troll at Kings Canyon National Park. Today I found him resting as well as overseeing the canyon. He’s definitely hiding more in his resting shot. His face sags a bit like mine when I’m lying down. I thought his face was set in stone, but I guess not.

It’s always amazing to find faces that look so real they could have been carved on purpose. This came from the Las Vegas trip to the Valley of Fire we took just before the COVID lockdown. Click the link for more color pictures.

Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada

This last image came from a walk around Willow Lake in Prescott, AZ. Vince found an alien. It took me a while to see him, but he looks scared and it looks like maybe he lost an eye.

This last picture isn’t rocky unless you consider that metal is mined from rock – okay that’s a stretch. But I had submitted a color photo for one of Cee’s Oddball Challenge posts a million years ago – yeah, yeah I lied – five years.

Radio man’s dog.

For more great images of Faces in Things check out Cee’s comment section.

41 responses to “CBWC: Faces in Rocky Places”

  1. akane Avatar
    akane

    👌

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  2. Jules Avatar
    Jules

    Lovely images. I like to imagine shapes and faces in clouds too. Another good place to look for faces is in gnarled old trees 😀

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Yes, I have one of those, you just reminded me!

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  3. Retirement Reflections Avatar
    Retirement Reflections

    Once again your photography is stunning. I love the contrast of the colour beside the black and white!

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Thanks, Donna. That was an amazing stone.

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  4. Cee Neuner Avatar
    Cee Neuner

    Marsha, these are great faces for this week…Thanks for playing along 😀

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Thanks, Cee. 🙂 There was one woman who had a picture much like my man from Valley of the Fire. I left her a comment. Hopefully she will stop by. 🙂

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  5. robertawrites235681907 Avatar
    robertawrites235681907

    I love this rocky fave picture, Marsha. I took some pictures of a mountain with a face when we visited Ghost Mountain in April.

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      I can’t tell you how many times I looked at that picture before I saw it, Robbie. I didn’t see it until I wrote the post last week, and poof, there it was. I took the picture in 2017. 🙂 Thanks for reading and commenting. I hope you have a nice weekend – not like last week. 🙂

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      1. robertawrites235681907 Avatar
        robertawrites235681907

        I always see faces in everything, Marsha; mountains, trees, even rain drops. It must be my superstitious English countryside blood [smile].

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        1. Marsha Avatar
          Marsha

          Probably, but doesn’t South Africa have its own superstitions? I don’t think of myself as being superstitious at all, but I know we all have those deep-rooted beliefs that govern our behaviors even on a sub-conscious level.

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          1. robertawrites235681907 Avatar
            robertawrites235681907

            The native African population have a lot of superstitions and myths. The European African population have held on to their traditional beliefs and myths that originate mainly from Britain, Netherlands, and France.

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          2. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            Did the native population adopt an additional superstitions from the Europeans and Americans. My first husband’s cousin was a dentist in Johannesburg, South Africa. My mother-in-law, who never even drove or went much of anywhere, visited him when his parents went to see him. She brought me back some sand. 🙂

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          3. robertawrites235681907 Avatar
            robertawrites235681907

            How interesting to bring back sand. Ours is rather lovely and white. Our native population has not adopted European superstitions. They have very strong cultures and traditions of their own which centre around the spirits of their ancestors. It is quite unique here how the Christian faith mixes with local customs and traditional beliefs.

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          4. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            Also interesting that Europeans mixed with S. African’s superstitions. But the European missionaries felt they may have had to do that to reach the native populations with Christian beliefs in order to foster an understanding in a very foreign way of thinking.

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          5. robertawrites235681907 Avatar
            robertawrites235681907

            Yes, they were probably right that accommodation was the shortest route to success.

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          6. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            And since the South Africans had no reason to try to influence them, they didn’t adopt anything unless they were converted.

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  6. VJ Knutson Avatar
    VJ Knutson

    Well done!

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  7. Jim Borden Avatar
    Jim Borden

    I think I caught all the faces you spoke of, especially the one from Las Vegas. I guess it’s like looking at clouds and seeing what you can find…

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      If you check out Cee’s post, she’s even got a flower that looks like a face.

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      1. Jim Borden Avatar
        Jim Borden

        faces everywhere…

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        1. Marsha Avatar
          Marsha

          Exactly!

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          1. Jim Borden Avatar
            Jim Borden

            you just have to be observant…

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          2. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            And that’s why you go to places like this and take pictures. Thanks as always for your fun mini-conversations. 🙂

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          3. Jim Borden Avatar
            Jim Borden

            that’s why I read as much as I can, to find some material for my blog posts!

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          4. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            Have you found something exciting? Send me a link. 🙂

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          5. Jim Borden Avatar
            Jim Borden

            when I find something that captures my interest, it usually ends up in my blog 🙂

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          6. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            How do you have time to teach? Your blog is so funny. Did you actually read all those choices. OMgosh you should have links on every post since you read so much. 🙂 Then on top of that, all the blogs you read… You’re amazing, my friend. 🙂

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          7. Jim Borden Avatar
            Jim Borden

            thanks, Marsha! I did read all of thos choices. One of the nice things about the stories on the Study Finds web site is that they’re all relatively short, 2-4 minutes to read.

            And I enjoy the time I spend blogging, whether it is writing or reading 🙂

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          8. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            It is fun. I probably spend that much time researching when I write a post, but I never thought to list them like you did. That was super fun partly because the topics were so random. Well done. By the time I get back to read them, though, you will have come up with an equally amusing article that will grab my attention. 🙂 I’m easily distracted. 🙂

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          9. Jim Borden Avatar
            Jim Borden

            the internet was amde for people like us who are easily distracted… 🙂

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          10. Marsha Avatar
            Marsha

            Amen to that.

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          11. Jim Borden Avatar
            Jim Borden

            👍

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  8. photobyjohnbo Avatar
    photobyjohnbo

    Cool challenge!!

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Thanks, John! 🙂

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  9. philosophy through photography Avatar
    philosophy through photography

    Love the orange and B&W click.The rock was resembling like a mummy

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Thanks so much. 🙂

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  10. judeitakali Avatar
    judeitakali

    These are amazing Marsha.

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    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Thanks, Jude. You are kind. 🙂

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      1. judeitakali Avatar
        judeitakali

        Always such a pleasure.

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        1. Marsha Avatar
          Marsha

          🙂

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