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This is a sliding rock.you can find them on the death valley's RaceTrack Playa, a dry lake where these huge stones move !!, leaving a trace behind them.
the most relevant theory explaining this movements involves heavy rain, transforming the playa in a mud pool, and strong winds.
Not a very original shot of these rocks, there is plenty similar shots over the net, but I still like it
K10D, Sigma 17-70, circular polarizer
2 other sliding rocks : [link] and [link]
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Imagine just looking behind you and seeing that: "wtf? A ROCK is following me?"
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I've never seen this before and I think it's amazing and befuddling. beautiful capture, sky is lovely
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i saw this in the gallery in jackson hole.
sweet picture
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I recently saw a very similar photo in Digital Slr Photography magazine and I thought how beautiful though I didn't know if the effect was human made or natural. Your photo is really inspiring
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wonderful too. maybe you should add contrast on the ground. The first of these three have perfect contrast on the ground.
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the first one was shot at sunset, this one around 2 or 3 pm, the difference in the contrast comes from there. the low angle light of the sunset really helped to bring out the floor contrast.
thx
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man - i've never heard of these before - i love the wiggle in the line of the stones trail. Great mountains and sky colour too!
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heyy, i have been there, but i couldnt find these rocks...
nice colors!
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oups !!, did you stop at the first parking place ? there is actually no sliding rock there... you had to go further on the dirt road until the end of the "race track", the sliding rocks are all at the south end of the playa...
thank you very much for the 
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okay, next time ill do that! 
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now that was very interesting. i like how calm this photo is.
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Wonderful composition and the atmosphere you captured is amazing.
I've always wanted to wander around Death Valley. There is just so much cool stuff there.
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the Death valley is really wort it, a "must see" if you come to california
thank you very much for stopping by
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Wow, is the sky manipulated in any way?
because the colors are brilliant.
I love the composition of this shot
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the shot is done with a circular polarizer, and that's what give this sky
thx for stopping by
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What brand of polarizer?
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tamron 
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Really nice and interessing shot! Lovely composition!
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haha
perhaps this is where the idea for the moving rocks (which then turn out to be crabs) in the Pirates of the Carribean 3 movie..
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yep
thx for stopping by
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En tout cas je ne connaissais pas ces cailloux mouvants ^^
Je prΓ©fΓ¨re quand mΓͺme les deux autres photos. Ici le cailloux ressort un peu moins et avec la texture forte du sol Γ§a ne facilite pas la lecture.
Par contre j'aime bien l'angle avec tout le parcours du cailloux en background.
Je me demande ce que ça donnerai avec un profondeur de champs très réduite.
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j'ai a peu pres la meme avec une DOF reduite, j'aime bien le resultat et j'ai hesite un moment sur laquelle je devais poster
je me suis decider sur celle la parceque je voulais avoir un "example" disponible pour faciliter la lecture de la photo en light painting.
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Ah oui comme rΓ©fΓ©rence Γ§a marche bien effectivement.
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i've never heard of these rocks before, and seen no pictures, so it's original
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Love the sky, this looks like an amazing place to get photographs
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yes, the place is really worth it
thank you
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I've seen a lot of photos of these rocks, but never an explanation. I always thought it was some kind of human/photographers intervention, it's good to know it's natural and hard to explain
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glad I learned you something
thx for stopping by
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That is a awesome picture!!! and interesting story behind it!!
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