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The image shows a portion of weather worn sandstone rock.
The Sydney sandstone rock normally forms into horizontal layers which may then be eroded by wind, wave and rain into forms involving indentations and ridges as in my other images.

In this case, the appearance resembles the end grain, or growth rings, of a cut off tree. The space shown is about four feet across (1.2 metres). Location is Boat Harbour, Sydney, Australia. Date 2012

I have had a passing interest in photography for many years - mainly as a record of places I'd been to whilst bushwalking. In "my former life" as a University Professor teaching structural engineering in Australia and before that in Canada I started collecting 35mm slides of a technical nature (buildings, bridges, concrete, steel, timber etc.) that I could use in my teaching. In this role I was instrumental in the early 1990s to start collecting technical images of all aspects of structures and to start putting these images into a more pictorial "multimedia" orientated teaching environment. Much later, after retiring from Academia, I moved from 35mm slides to digital cameras. A great deal later (about 2010) I invested in a Nikon D80...