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This crab caught my eye on the beach this afternoon. Lying motionless in a sand wave with his claw raised as if it was a final wave goodbye.
Dingieshowe beach at low tide, in-between the heavy downpours.
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That wave
Pushed me into your skin
Where I bathed in the promises
Giddy with planets parading
I swam down to the bottom of the sky
Where I questioned the blue birds all about it
I was in heaven
Address cloud eleven
They danced and laughed spelling all I fell into was love
I don't typically shoot vertical landscapes but this one just seemed to need it. Way up north just south of Cape Hedo. It's good to be back to exploring.
Lorenzo and I worked on this little science project, just by accident (inspired by the Kitchen Science Series from the Naked Scientists' podcast: www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/kitchennbspscience/. I was spackling/decorating the walls of my bedroom and left this bucket full of water and some "insoluble" grains of "sand" (wood/wall filler, as a powder).
By shaking the bucket, we created waves and watched the patters of the "sand" as it set, a few minutes later. This one shown in the photo was perhaps the nicest pattern, showing a beautiful simmetry. We obtained it when the waves were created by shaking the basin back and forth along just one direction. You don't get it as shown if you turn the waves around.
That's pretty much what happens on the seafloor, when you look at the ripples, or on sand dunes, after wind blew.
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Lorenzo ed io abbiamo lavorato su questo simpatico esperimentello, per caso, ma anche un poco ispirati dalla serie "Kitchen Science" del podcast the naked scientists: www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/kitchennbspscience/ (fichissimo!). Stuccando le pareti della stanza da letto mia, ho lasciato sul tavolo una bacinella con dentro dei resti di stucco in polvere, non disciolto. Ci siamo accorti che agitando la bacinella in diversi modi si ottenevano, alcuni minuti dopo, delle forme diverse di deposito di stucco (come la sabbia sul fondo del mare o la sabbia sulle dune battute dal vento). Quella che si vede nella fotografia e' forse la piu' carina che abbiamo visto. Presenta delle simmetrie perche' deriva dall'agitazione dell'acqua (ovvvero dai movimenti della bacinella) in una sola direzione, avanti ed indietro. Se si impartiscono movimenti piu' circolari alla bacinella si perdono queste simmetrie. Provate!