{"id":7524,"date":"2016-02-22T20:35:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T10:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=7524"},"modified":"2016-02-22T20:46:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T10:46:26","slug":"great-ocean-road-rock-piling-addiction-a-little-photo-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=7524","title":{"rendered":"Great Ocean Road rock piling addiction – a little photo story"},"content":{"rendered":"

It starts off as an idle thought of what to do at the beach on a cool cloudy day without your wet suit ….<\/p>\n

Your mind starts to wander … and then you see some nice rounded rocks …. and you think… why not pile them up …<\/p>\n

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after all, a beautiful coastline could always do with a bit more interest, couldn’t it?<\/p>\n

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and then you do another … this time with a bit more thought in construction …<\/p>\n

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and then some more … even higher ….<\/p>\n

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you find some nice big rocks to use as backdrops …..<\/p>\n

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and then .. you are addicted…. you start doing them up the river too…<\/p>\n

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and you start getting really good at it …<\/p>\n

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and you just can’t stop ….<\/p>\n

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then along comes someone to copy your craze, but rather pathetically, as everyone knows that this rock is not going to work like that!<\/p>\n

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while other tourists appreciate all the hard work and stop to take pics …<\/p>\n

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and eventually much of the beach is covered in rock cairns … and it looks kind of weird, rather than beautiful ….<\/p>\n

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Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia.<\/p>\n

All images shot with Olympus OM-D cameras and the pro lenses.<\/p>\n

Of course I did not create these cairns I don’t have that much OCD – otherwise I would carry a big tripod and a Canikon dSLR with big lenses – although there is nothing wrong with that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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