Rock Portraits in Midcoast Maine
and some significant rocks from other places

I thought it would be interesting to go back through my photostream with an eye to discovering how my rock portraiture has developed since I first took notice of personalities in the lithic realm. Each image is an experiment in perception and imagination and capture. The gallery tracks my engagement month by month, and presents individual images which seemed especially significant as I went through the Flickr photostream. (It will probably grow as I find others that I can't bear to leave out). There's also a page with links to Flickr Albums for additional chronology. Some of these have appeared in Blurb books Just a Rock: a lithic menagerie (May 2018), Elevenses (November 2019), and WYGIWYS: Exploring Morphic Resonance in Rock, Wood and Water (January 2020).

February 2021
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January 2021
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November 2020
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September 2020
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May 2020
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April 2020

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February 2020

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January 2020
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December 2019
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November 2019
golden frog

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October 2019
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roundness

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September 2019
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slightly feline

August 2019
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March 2019
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February 2019
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December 2018
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November 2018
Mr Belaker

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late November pumpkin

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October 2018
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the Sleeper awakens

insect horror

the gold lamé suit

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20x18170 Rock Conversation

20x18144 Bright Phoebus

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Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds

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September 2018
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July 2018
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June 2018
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March 2018
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February 2018
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(see Bodhidharma and false Bodhidarma for context)

January 2018
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homage a Pablo Picasso

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precipitated salt

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female avatar of Poseidon/Neptune bracketed by White Whales

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December 2017
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Cubist portrait

Just a Rock at Drift Inn, 3 December

Saltus beach

November 2017
cracking

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October 2017
quite possibly Great A'Tuin (the Four Elephants Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen not shown)

a favorite rock

at Drift Inn very early today

September 2017
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mesomorphic god

Great Wass rock 25

August 2017
languid

cliff face

leviathan13mutton-chopped tropical fish

pointilliste

July 2017
cliff faces

June 2017
stone maiden with flowing hair

May 2017
screaming tafoni
(San Mateo County, CA)

cascading tafoni
(San Mateo County, CA)

March 2016
stony conclave

April 2015
laminar5

December 2014
wings in motion

tessellated bas relief

trickster

laminar

pourri (rocks of an old lime kiln)

bas relief x4

October 2014
rock2

too many rocks
(somewhere in the Green Mountains of VT)

August 2014
depending bladderwrack

June 2014
cairn

March 2014
12th Imam as first discovered

Imam rotated and adjusted

expired and melting turbaned dude, on the lap of a Goddess

November 2013
folded rock

June 2012
full-on enigma

March 2012
weed creature at Drift Inn

October 2011
the eponymous Blue Rocks
(Blue Rocks, Lunenburg County NS)

July 2011
Contemplating the sands
(Jim Manshardt searches for a rock to take home)

March 2011
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(San Mateo County, CA)

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(San Mateo County, CA)

Jan 2011
Drift Inn 5

Drift Inn 4

December 2010
Just before sunrise over Mosquito Island

October 2010
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(beached Leviathan in Rockport)

October 2009
Fundy Shore near Harbourville
(Fundy Shore near Harbourville NS)

March 2009
rock creature bites blue-eyed prey

January 2009
blushing rock creature
(Owl's Head)

conclave of lurking rock creatures

Spring 1965
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