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Brilliant evening sunshine,
like nature's studio lights,
highlighting kelp and seaweed
as sculpture in relief.
photos from our west coast retreat
Marja-Leena | 27/05/2010 | 12 comments
themes: Canada and BC, Nature, Photoworks
Comments
When I was a kid we loved to break those bladders on the seaweed. The same stuff washes up on California beaches.
Posted by: Hattie | 09:19 28 May 2010
Marja-Leena, I have been looking at this series of vacation photographs with all sorts of feelings running through me. Some of the shots remind me of a place in southern Japan near the town of Shimabara. Others seem familiar though I've never been up to Western Canada. All I know is that I would enjoy myself immensely in such a spot. Your beach rubble shots are wonderful. Do you know Sappho's fragment 145 as translated by Mary Barnard? "if you are squeamish don't prod the beach rubble." (I know that a more faithful translation of the fragment would be "do not move stones," but I've always liked Barnard's poetic version. Now your photos give it colour!
Posted by: rouchswalwe | 14:40 28 May 2010
Hattie, you are a California coast kid?! I'm a freshwater one myself, but do love the ocean immensely. Looking down underfoot at all that gets washed ashore is so fascinating to me.
rouchswalwe, I hope most of those feelings you are having are good ones, such as I always have there! I don't know that quote, interesting... I think the stone one would apply to me! Will have to look it up.
Posted by: marja-leena | 16:57 28 May 2010
That first picture looks very like a precious pearl in a setting fit for a mermaid to wear. It glows in a way that stirs my imagination.
Posted by: susan | 21:41 28 May 2010
Susan, I saw this as a pearl too, a golden pearl, but I could not find the mermaid who dropped it :-)
Posted by: marja-leena | 22:34 28 May 2010
yes, a glowing pearl is what i saw too - beautiful. amazing light in these shots...
Posted by: Fire Bird | 02:38 29 May 2010
Fire Bird, glad you like!
Posted by: marja-leena | 18:26 29 May 2010
Yes, I loved roaming beaches and beachcombing when I was a girl in California. It was more fun in the pre-plastic days.
Posted by: Hattie | 15:39 31 May 2010
All of these are so beautiful! It's a world I never see and know so little about.
Posted by: beth | 17:33 31 May 2010
Hattie, 'pre-plastic days'... indeed!
Beth, thanks. Maybe a holiday on the west coast would interest you?
Posted by: marja-leena | 22:01 31 May 2010
Ooo, I can almost smell them! I must get to the seacoast soon, and sink my toes in that salty sand.
Posted by: leslee | 18:37 02 June 2010
Leslee, this seacoast wasn't warm enough for bare feet yet, though some of the hardier surfers and some kids had no problem.
Posted by: marja-leena | 21:53 02 June 2010