Balancing Pebbles

I know this sounds a little bit sad but for a while now I’ve been trying to take up a new hobbie that isn’t tied to my computer. In the past my hobby has pretty much been either browsing the web, reading forums, commenting on blogs or watching TV online.

So I decided to take up Pebble Balancing - the art of balancing pebbles and then taking a photo of your creation to post to a site like Flickr or a blog.

I’m not going to bore you with photos of balanced pebbles as it WILL get dull after a while - it’s just this one blog post that will see me mention them and post a photo - because it’s my first success.

I’ve been trying on and off for a couple of months to balance pebbles but until this afternoon haven’t got anywhere with it - the photo at the top is my first success.

Hopefully now I can start creating some attractive balances, more so than a couple of pebbles on top of each other anyway.

It’s brilliantly relaxing - as long as you’re a patient person and don’t get easily wound up - I can sit there for hours (if I had hours) just trying to balance pebbles on top of each other.

I first learnt about rock balancing (or pebble balancing) from Dave Gorman’s flickr stream earlier this year.

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