Finding Balance Or...
... Making My Own Balance.
Both, since balance, seems to inspire balance.
This one I built myself. When something is missing, create it.
Right? But I was not the first one to populate our Black Sea coast with the balanced stones towers. I saw a few when I got there. Not many, but a few.
Here they are from afar, so far that you barely see the towers themselves. And those were about chest-level high.
Let's call this Stone Balance Beach.
And some of them were quite elaborate.
Like this one, which had a window.
There were nude people behind that window and that's why I don't have a better angle of it. I will leave it to your imagination. You're better off that way, trust me. No, I don't mean anything. Even if I do.
But it was this previous piece, along with this one...
I think I picked the perfect round base for my frame. It's not the bottom stone of the structure.
...that inspired my stone balancing urge.
And I built...
...hold on, let's take another angle at this one...
...and then one more...
...where was I...ah, and I built and I balanced...
This on did not last long. Waves are not the best of constants.
But I managed to take another angle at this one, too.
Until I built no more. So I think the one I was able to start from rock already standing in shallow waters, that one was my favorite because of the reflections. And its elegant silhouette.
There, a wider angle at it and its surroundings.
And you know why I did it? For various reasons that sound plausible, like because I wanted an image for stock photography (which is also something I do here in a project of mine...coming back to you soon), or because I wanted to give my wife a foreground for her oil painting...
(Not yet finished but she already has an account here made just a couple of weeks ago - right before our vacation and before share2steem crumbled like so many stones which have lost their balance... to maybe rise again someday, let's hope. So, if you want to find out more about her paintings...which will eventually come here as images, you can follow her. Her account, the one we still have the pass to after an earlier unsuccessful attempt..., is @silver.art and she will be happy to find your feedback.)
...Right, reasons for building. To practice my balancing skills? To leave a mark on the beach for people to enjoy? To show off here? All of those, but mostly...
Because I enjoyed it. Go and build a tower of stones and see if you don't enjoy it, too. And perhaps along the way, you will find some balance within that you did not know was there.
Best of summer to you!
Yours,
Manol
Arranging these stones to have balance is really artistic and ingenuity of you to do
Just following a cool trend. Thanks!
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You really do come up with some awesome ideas and have a great eye. That looks like a really peaceful way to spend an afternoon.
I am not sure if I would have done it wee there no pictures to be taken afterwards.
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That first picture is pure ZEN! So peaceful.
Not as amooth as a mountain lake surface but looking close enough, I guess. Thanks for stopping by.
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Amazing shots! This is sth i would like to do at some point, i hope soon:)
Go for it :) You got amazing beaches and pebbles and other stones. I wanted to visit Greece again this summer but too many other trips planned and we will probably skip it...Still, there's place and time for hope ;)
Oh, i will for sure find a beach in a few days with a lot of peddles to work on it. When we were children we were throwing them at the sea to see them bounch. Now we are staking them,lol. I hope you can make it, the good weather will last until late September:)
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Everything looks wonderful @manoldonchev. I bet you were like a kid in a candy store. Creating to create. Looks like a great way to spend a day. Can't wait to see your wife's painting.
Well, she is working on a lot of piece simultaneously, so...we have to wait. She's after some crashing waves this time.
Thanks.
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Those who did them got skills. Such fun to see how they can come up with different shapes.
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