Pebble Balancing in Lahr

Some more quick balancing, this time lakeside in Lahr.

Brick Balance

A quick bit of balancing down on the beach.

Rock Balancing - Ynys Enlli

Just realised I never got around to posting these. The photographs were taken last summer while waiting for the Ynys Enlli ferry while the last one was taken on the island itself. It's a fascinating place to spend an afternoon, tides permitting.

Rock Balancing on the shores of Loch Lomond

My first attempt at Rock Balancing in a long, long time. Couldn't have picked a nicer spot for it though.

Rock Balancing on Pensarn Beach again

 

Here's the rock balancing photographs I promised on Monday. I'm quite pleased with the height I achieved in the bottom photograph - practice does indeed make perfect.

Rock Balancing on Pensarn Beach

Time to catch up on what I did over xmas and the new year. Boxing day found me down on Pensarn Beach with the family. The idea was to go for a walk along the cycle path that leads from there to Llanddulas but we ended up stacking stones and then knocking them from a distance. Here's a few of our temporary creations:

And then, after the sun had sunk behind Tan-y-Gopa, came the following, all by my fair hand.

I did leave these all standing but I suspect they were knocked down shortly thereafter by the family having a BBQ (?!) further along the beach.

Travels with my Camera: Rock Balancing in Scotland

I've been on away to Scotland again recently and had a go at more rock balancing, including my first Pebble Balance. Here are the results:

Travels with my Camera: Stone Garden on the Isle of Skye

I've found another Stone Garden up in Scotland, this time on the Isle of Skye. It can be found by the driving along the A855 around the south side of the island and is located just by the side of the road.

I made this: More Rock Balancing

I had a second go at rock balancing, this time on a small rocky beach near Edern on the Llyn Peninsula, Wales. My aim this time was to create a 'stone garden', similar to what I found on the Isle of Arran. It took just under an hour to stack the 5 towers, with a high wind blowing in off the sea causing a couple of them to collapse along the way.

I left the stones standing and hope to pop back and add a few more, but I doubt they'll be upright long. If you're interested in adding to the 'garden', send me an email via my website and I'll let you it's exact location.

I made this: Rock Balancing

Inspired by my earlier blog post I had a go at Rock Balancing last weekend whilst staying near Llanidloes in Wales. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and wanted the share the results below.

My first attempts above were made on a stony beach next to a river.

My second attempts were made later that afternoon, this time using slate pieces. Apart from a habit of cracking in half whenever the stacks fell the slate proved to be good building material and I managed to get them balanced up to a half-metre high.

Travels with my Camera: Rock Balancing on the Isle of Arran

Last year, Alison and I went a travelling round Scotland and eventually found ourselves on the Isle of Arran. It's a beautiful place, well worth a visit in and of itself. Whilst traveling around the isle we visited the King's Cave, the legendary hiding place of Robert the Bruce, where he was inspired by the tenacity of a spider spinning its web to go on and become king of Scotland.

It was outside the main cave we came across the unusual sight photographed above and below. Someone (or someone's) had balanced a large number of rocks on top of each other along the costline and had evidently spent a lot time here in this remote location. It was an unusual sight to come across and I found it absolutely fascinating. I have tried to find out more information about who is responsible for this, but haven't found anything so far. There also isn't much information about rock balancing online, with it's two main proponents being Bill Dan - who's website features some amazing work and Dave Gorman (yes, that Dave Gorman) - his flickr account containing an extensive collection of his balances.