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A stroll 11 years ago on the beach, images from my recently IR converted GH3 back then - files buried until recently found.

These bizarre dune erosions became a long-lost, buried ancient cliff-dwelling settlement in my mind. Nature would seem to abhor the flat vertical and horizontal planes, right angles, regular repeating patterns seen in these images. Any beach hydrologists, anthropologists, mystics, or others with thoughts about it?

Pete

Lower Monterey Bay beach and dune...
Lower Monterey Bay beach and dune...



When around the corner, what to my wondering eyes did appear???
When around the corner, what to my wondering eyes did appear???



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Further down a bit
Further down a bit



And further, a Southwest cliff-dwelling look-alike, with walls and terraces above...
And further, a Southwest cliff-dwelling look-alike, with walls and terraces above...
 
Where?
 
What conversion did you get?

I get a different set of colors from my 590nm conversion.
 
FW Scharpf said:
Where?
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This was on a W-facing beach on the lower part of Monterey Bay, several miles N of the Monteray Peninsula junction. The close-up screen-cap shows a faint dune cluster that I believe was the approx. site.

Pete

The Bay about 25 miles wide
The Bay about 25 miles wide



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grsnovi said:
What conversion did you get?

I get a different set of colors from my 590nm conversion.
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Mine was a full-spectrum conversion, Gary, by Kolari-vision. I didn't do any channel-swapping or other PP except levels in these.

Pete
 
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Mine was a full-spectrum conversion, Gary, by Kolari-vision. I didn't do any channel-swapping or other PP except levels in these.
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I sometimes wish that I'd gone full spectrum.

I find my 590nm converted gx85 doesn't get a whole lot of use.

Shot last week near Florence, OR R/B channels swapped 590nm
Shot last week near Florence, OR R/B channels swapped 590nm

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grsnovi said:
Pete Berry said:
Mine was a full-spectrum conversion, Gary, by Kolari-vision. I didn't do any channel-swapping or other PP except levels in these.
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I sometimes wish that I'd gone full spectrum.

I find my 590nm converted gx85 doesn't get a whole lot of use.

Shot last week near Florence, OR R/B channels swapped 590nm
Shot last week near Florence, OR R/B channels swapped 590nm
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That's lovely - very dreamy.

I went for a more in-your-face "False Color" R-B channel swap in most of mine - the below from my last set of IR's in '14.

Pete

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Here's some wisteria I shot a while back...

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... so she can lead you to Mars resistant leader Kuato and together we can all bring Cohaagen down.
 
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Pete Berry said:
A stroll 11 years ago on the beach, images from my recently IR converted GH3 back then - files buried until recently found.

These bizarre dune erosions became a long-lost, buried ancient cliff-dwelling settlement in my mind. Nature would seem to abhor the flat vertical and horizontal planes, right angles, regular repeating patterns seen in these images. Any beach hydrologists, anthropologists, mystics, or others with thoughts about it?

Pete
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nice pics Pete

re: “Nature would seem to abhor the flat vertical and horizontal planes,”

I don’t believe this to be correct. There are ample examples at a wide range of scales . . . crystals, icebergs, igneous rock formations, ocean floor fault lines and rectilinear patterns on rock platforms on coastal shorelines

jj
 
jjbinx said:
Pete Berry said:
A stroll 11 years ago on the beach, images from my recently IR converted GH3 back then - files buried until recently found.

These bizarre dune erosions became a long-lost, buried ancient cliff-dwelling settlement in my mind. Nature would seem to abhor the flat vertical and horizontal planes, right angles, regular repeating patterns seen in these images. Any beach hydrologists, anthropologists, mystics, or others with thoughts about it?

Pete
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nice pics Pete

re: “Nature would seem to abhor the flat vertical and horizontal planes,”

I don’t believe this to be correct. There are ample examples at a wide range of scales . . . crystals, icebergs, igneous rock formations, ocean floor fault lines and rectilinear patterns on rock platforms on coastal shorelines

jj
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I stand corrected, jj, and should have qualified it regarding naturally eroding sand dunes. But have you ever seen anything even remotely similar? No help with Google regarding Aoelean dunes.

Thanks, Pete
 
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