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After posting a shot with Worthing pier in it yesterday I thought I would post another in totally different conditions.
A high tide sunset with waves coming in can be a tricky game sometimes along this beach as there are some steeply shelving banks of shingle to catch out the unknowing.
Here I was taking shots as I was heading towards the pier between the sets of Wooden groynes, the sun was now behind the bank of cloud but still giving me some lovely colour.
I did not want a long exposure to take away all the detail of the sea but just enough to capture the flow back from a receding wave, you have to be smart on the remote button at the right time.
Anther wet and windy day here , got a soaking on a walk first thing and looks like it will be wet around sunset time again not that a sunset looks likely again today.
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"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate". ~Chuang Tzu~
WANNABE WARMER WEDNESDAY #6
Can't believe I'm still here. LOL. My attention span leaves a lot to be desired. My favorite of all the summer blossoms are the water lily/lotus from the Chicago Botanic Garden. I could sit with them all day long because every time you turn around they're a little more open, a little more closed, lighted differently. The last couple of years had been hard to shoot them. 2020 brought closures from the pandemic and 2021 brought construction to my two favorite parts of the Garden. Here's to hoping that 2022 is going to be a better year!! ♥
I was just listening to Meshell NdegeOcello:
"Come smoke my herb
make your heart like the ocean, mind like the clear blue sky...
Just love, worry not about tomorrow be simple like the flowers... "
Rising below the slopes of Mynydd y Drum in the foothills of the Brecon Beacons, the River Dulais is a flash flood river, which has been the driving force for over 400 years of industrial innovation.
The torrent flows down the Dulais valley for approximately 13 kilometres (8 miles), south-west through the villages of Seven Sisters and Crynant before cascading over the Aberdulais waterfall – the source of this image.
Here it joins the River Neath close to the tidal reaches near Tonna.
The gorge in which the river and waterfall now lie was formed about 20,000 years ago. As a glacier further up the valley melted, the resulting melt water slowly cut its way down through the 300-million-year-old rock. This can be seen on the west side of the gorge today.
The rock is Pennant sandstone, which is a very severely compressed bed of sand. Beneath it is a layer of coal, that has been gradually eroded by the flowing water allowing the rock above to collapse and form the Falls as we see them today.
In wet weather, and in winter, when the river is in full spate, it's a truly awesome - and noisy - spectacle. My image ‘Flow,’ tries to reflect that experience.
Subject: Abstract energy and texture.
Medium: Digital Artwork.
Inspiration: Enjoying the organic development of a new relationship.
I increased the ISO to 1000 here to be able to keep the aperture at f/8 but get the quicker shutter speed as the water was really moving fast ... this allowed for more detail in the pretty flow at 1/4 second shutter speed.
Capture with the CPL filter only.
Flow @2021 Trimiklini, Cyprus --------------------------------------------------------- f/14 | 20 sec | ISO 100 | 14 mm --------------------------------------------------------- Theme : Long Exposure Photography Series : Autumn Vibes Location: Trimiklini, Cyprus Website: etilavgis.com Instagram : www.instagram.com/estjustphoto/ Flickr : flickr.com/photos/estjustphoto/ 500px : 500px.com/etilavgis YouPic : youpic.com/photographer/etilavgis
“In the ebb and flow of life, an opportunity missed is often an opportunity missed forever!”
-Unknown
Since seeing the above quote on a coffee cup while out thrifting several weeks ago I have not been able to release the ebb and flow part from my thoughts. I am always amazed at where that “thing” that sticks in your heart, that inspires the deepest of thought can come from. Being a simple man, a coffee cup saying can become the “ear worm” that sticks!
This photo, taken at Ft. Pickens Florida back in 2022 was the last thing I edited before waking my beloved dog Sophie and heading to bed to sleep with my bride. Oddly, it was on my heart as I awoke this morning, riding on the back of the term ebb and flow like a jockey in the derby!
It was maybe a half an hour after sunrise as I walked the beaches of Ft. Pickens, totally prepared for the gifts that I knew would be granted. As I walked east on the beach in total solitude, I noticed flight after flight of pelicans, cormorants, seagulls and terns overhead as if on a mission and landing and swimming several hundred yards up the beach…there were hundreds of birds congregating in a very small area. Experience had taught me that a feeding frenzy was about to occur, so I sprinted down the beach to capture the event.
The sprint, that quickly morphed into a jog and then again into a fast walk got me there to see the entire evolution of the event and how the different species worked in unison for the sake of survival. The dolphin herded the small baitfish from the depts as they gorged themselves on the millions of fish. Once the fish were near the surface the divebombing began with the pelicans and cormorants hitting the water like a severe, softball size hail storm. The gulls and terns did their best to get into the action by taking the dead and injured fish from the surface. There was so much action in an area the size of a couple of tennis courts that focusing on a subject became impossible. I started swinging my lens around as if in a convulsion, perfectly reflecting what was going on between my ears!
This shot was taken as the frenzy was starting to die down. The shoal of fish who certainly numbered in the millions at the start were now splintered into several smaller schools with their numbers decimated. In this shot, the cormorants pinned a school between them and the beach with the school turning the small wave brown. The dolphin and pelican soon departed, much heavier that when they arrived. It was now time for the smaller consumers to feast, the species that could only take a few, or in the case of this juvenile Royal tern, one at a time.
The natural ebb and flow of our planet, the shifting of her plates, her natural cycles of ice ages and thaws and changing weather patterns allows events like this to take place. Sometime in the near future this area will experience a hurricane and the population of pelicans, cormorants, gulls and terns of the area will take a hit. The baitfish will thrive as the seabirds’ numbers rebound thus creating balance in nature, in the circle of life.
Adventure before dementia.
The beautiful clear blue waters rushed past a truck-sized boulder as the reflected light bounced through the narrows on a cool fall day.
Virgin River Narrows
Zion National Park
Springdale, Utah
Same as the previous upload, except this time I altered the exposure and managed to catch some pretty sweet water flow.
Snow drifts flow past sage brush with frosted mountains in the distance. This Bear Lake Valley scene is between Bennington and Georgetown, Idaho