Submitter's name:	Brian Swale
Title:	Shag rock by the sea.
Gear used:	OM-4Ti + Zuiko 75-150 f/4 + tripod.
Diaphragm:	f/8
Shutter speed:	1/200
Film used:	Fuji Superia Reala 100 asa
Technical information:	Used self-timer. Scanned from a digital print at 240 ppi and reduced in size after the colours and light intensity were corrected; then sharpened. Colours and light had to be altered several times more to get he correct result in the jpeg.
Subject information:	Shag rock is a marine stack; an isolated relict pile of rock that has been cut off from the mainland by eroding action of the waves of the sea. The name derives from the one-time practice of the local sea-cormorants (shags) that used to roost and nest there. Now the place is dominates by wild European rock pigeons. This one is locally famous because it stands at the entrance to a small estuary bar-harbour right close to my home, and the entrance channel is visible in the background at this low-tide time.  The rock pile is also interesting; it is all old volcanic rock; there is columnar basalt over a red layer of old soil material which owes its red colour to the severe baking it got when the very hot basalt flowed across it about 80 million years ago. The rock pile still slowly reduces in size as the sea continues its eroding action.
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Comment left by: Olaf Greve (no e-mail specified)

Great rock formation, and well composed.

Comment left by: Fernando Gonzalez Gentile (fgnzalez@mednet.org.uy)

seems as if it was sculpted by Salvador Dalí, it is so unreal (surreal...)

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