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Rockscapes
My new term for this type of image: rockscape. These close-ups of rocks with enhanced colouring and shading makes them look like alien or, at least, abstract landscapes. I’m hooked on doing these; I love them. I spent ages last night working on these five:
The rocks have eyes
which, I believe, are actually cockles.
This is one of those very few pictures that needed no enhancement at all. Anything I might have done would have wrecked the balance. It isn’t a great shot in terms of subject matter, not one I would add to a portfolio, but the crop, colour balance and lighting are just right.
Rock pool canyon
Held the camera down very low to this rock pool and shot along the water. The rocks are about eighteen inches high.
I made the usual corrections to enhance the picture but also dragged a graduated filter with lowered exposure down from the top right corner to the middle of the shot.
Have I mentioned that I like shooting rock pools? 
Troll hand?
I liked the arrangement of rocks and water and it was only when I finished tweaking the values that I noticed that the rock in the top left of the picture looked like a hand with forefinger extended and rest of fingers curled into palm. Weird.
Maybe one of Terry Pratchett’s trolls, trying his hand at trout tickling.
I thought of brightening just the hand to make it stand out but like the way it is only barely is realised.
