I got a query about the size of my favorite tiny heart-shaped maze... as seen in spring http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=939342 and fall http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1068980 I did say "tiny". I was honest! Looking at this rough shot, and some others with people for scale, I'd say that it was 18' wide and 22' long. Because it is in the bottom of the bowl, one can get above it, and with the right angle and lighting, it will seem so much more spacious. Maybe they just take up more room in the mind, since the eye wants to trace the pathway? There are a couple of homes here in the Bay Area with mazes in their backyards... on average lots. I keep nudging my landlady about building one. ;^) For the curious, at least one company will come out and work with you on making a personal-sized maze. http://www.labyrinth-enterprises.com/ And yes, I realize that I have burned-out pixels in the camera, among other things I fix even on a "straight" unfiltered picture. I don't think there is anything which can be done about them. So, this is what the camera sees: a dusty path with dead weeds and lines of rocks (all I did with this was reduxce size and jpg it for posting). I see a magical place, and start nudging the sliders. Carolly

Very neat! This is what makes us artists...the ability to see deeper than just what the camera records. Thanks for sharing this, dead pixels, dust and all! =]

TwoPynts, It is an ancient volcanic area, and had 2 quarries before it was turned into a park. So, there are flat places, and piles of rocks. For some strange reasons, the piles of rocks seem to migrate over to the flat places when nobody is looking. ;^) (I've never seen anybody carrying a rock, although some of us tidy-up a bit.) The mazes are not marked on any official map, although the rangers will acknowledge that they are there. Hmm... this link says FIVE mazes. http://druidry.org/obod/sacred_sites/ca_mazes.html The heart maze and the largest cretan maze will flood... I've seen both with standing water... so there is a lot of silt which perhaps makes the path smoother: it does catch the light differently. I've got a couple of shots of the cretan one with reflections, but doing anything will take a fair amount of widgeting. It may be best to go back at another time of day. Andy Goldsworthy seems to be the favorite artist of many people around here. If folks aren't building mazes, they are stacking rocks. Compulsion? Putting artists in a quarry is like putting kids in a room full of Legos! Carolly

A very interesting link...and I love your artists in a quarry analogy. Looks like a place I'd enjoy visiting, thanks for sharing! =]