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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.
Same as the previous upload, except this time I altered the exposure and managed to catch some pretty sweet water flow.
Je me suis amusée à faire des essais de texture. Toute critique est acceptée!! :))
Merci à Renée (Playingwithbrusches) pour ses textures!
I had fun to experiment texture.
Any criticism is accepted! :))
Thank you to Renee (Playingwithbrusches) for its textures!
Snow drifts flow past sage brush with frosted mountains in the distance. This Bear Lake Valley scene is between Bennington and Georgetown, Idaho
Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.
Lao Tzu
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Image taken by Vik and representing quite well what 2 weeks of Iceland has been. Nevertheless, the expected “bad” weather provided some unexpected dramatic moments and shifts in mood which presented real challenges to be captured and worked on to display my images in a proper way.
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Shooting along the coast is always a pleasure as you never quite know what you’re going to walk away with. From shots that turn out pretty much as you hoped to complete disaster, we’re always walking that photographic tightrope. And being a little rusty after lockdown just means that the disaster side of the see saw is tilted further up.
For instance, I was hoping to post from a recent shoot which involved a very long exposure and was a one shot deal because of the light. But I forgot to switch my settings from 1/60 to BULB mode resulting in 973 black frames. I wondered what the clicking noise from the camera was. And then it was too dark to realistically do what I wanted.
So here’s one from Norway instead, when I was presumably more mentally agile than I appear to be now.
Have a great week Flickrites.