Ocean Tiles

[JimFox]

This is from the Southern end of Sunset Cliffs. I posted some photos yesterday of the Petrified Beach Ball at the Northern End. To get to this one, you have to go past the
"Do Not Go Past - Unstable Cliffs" signs to climb down the cliffs to get to this cove area. There used to be a rope to help you down at the bottom part where it's the steepest. I grew up rock climbing, so it's not a big deal even at 67 years old. I make it worse on myself by having a camera slung over each shoulder while also holding my video camera setup. I probably could have held the video camera while going down, but I put it in a side bag I have. Though once I got down I felt like I wimped out and should have just did a video as I was going down the cliff.

The nice thing, is the difficulty in getting down meant that instead of dozens of people running around, there was only a half dozen spread out.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice spray action on the rocks. What was your shutter speed? The rocks look more like good stone masonry work rather than tiles with the interlocking irregular shapes.

 

[JimFox]

Thanks Alan, it was at 1/10th of a sec. I was shooting closer to 1/5th, I was just setting up there so I must not have had totally dialed in there. But the 1/10th seemed to have worked pretty well.

And you are right, in the back of my mind I always knew "Tile" wasn't the right word, it is more like Stone Masonry. But I have been calling these tiles for like 20 years, so I might have a hard time switching.

We need @Douglas Sherman to describe how this stone masonry is made to look so perfect.

 

[Beth]

interesting pattern in the rock. love the spray, good shutter speed for that.