Others: Oh My, More Rock Balancing and Stacking

Born and raised in New Hampshire, amateur photographer / stacker Andrew Blake is no stranger to granite, and has the scars to prove it. He first experimented with stone as an artistic medium while camping by Maine's Acadia National Park. He has also stacked at Lake Umbagog on the New Hampshire/Maine border, as well as around his home in southern New Hampshire. While this image is hosted on the Deviantart image sharing site, more images are hosted in a Guest Directory on this site.

Self-taught Ontario balancer Sunjye has been balancing since 1995, mostly at Qew Beach on Lake Ontario in Toronto. He has additionally done balances in other Southern Ontario areas, including Saugeen Shores on Lake Huron, and in various gardens and at public events. A few of his images are Guest hosted here and may be accessed from his Guest Directory.

He has inspired Learner Pat Denino to begin balancing and to write about the practice.

Ben, Carolyn, John, and Carl Blattel-Britton are building a rock and sculpture garden in Zearing, Iowa. Their family professional art website includes images of metal sculpture, paintings, and pencil and ink drawings, as well as stacked and balanced rocks. They have presented an "Art in Our Yard" event in the past, and hope to do so again. The Rock Garden is open to the public from May to September (donations welcome).

Photographer Heinrich Unser sent Bill Dan photos of the work of Sepp Bögle, an accomplished balancer often working along the shore of the Bodensee (Lake Constance) in Southern Germany. As Georg Gagesch has written in his poetic homage, ""Hallo man! Would you like to play with us, to us our ponderousness take?" ("Hallo Mann! Möchtest du mit uns spielen, uns unsere Schwerfälligkeit nehmen?" - Google machine translation).

Stacker / balancer Albert Ellis ("Albalonee") writes from Jenner, California, that he displays his work by the highway, and has sold art to visitors from around the world. He says that while he does production pieces (it's his only source of income), he strives "for the artistic side first." He has submitted several of his images for a Guest directory, and reports that raccoons have been known to knock over a sculpture in his outdoor studio 80 feet above the Pacific Ocean.