Glance silence
Tangible memories
Larger whole
Beginning to see more aesthetic opportunities while walking through the swamp.
“Photography is like exploring a new dimension, only I can go there but I can show you where I’ve been.” – Destin Sparks
Natural attraction
Poised above
Edge ledge
Gravity is always working, most evident on precariously balanced rocks known as reverse seismometers.
“Maybe wind and water will eat away at its base or perhaps an earthquake will shake it loose.” – Stewart M. Green
Interacting force
Variable pattern
Manifestation
Being anywhere demands constant participation in prevalent circumstances.
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.” – Betty Smith
Aloof
Discrete
Independent
Few shrubs are indifferent about relative water levels.
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne
Sandy coast
Walking steadily
Pecking prey
With similar appearance and feeding behavior but of divergent magnitude, two shorebirds occupy the same area.
“Thoughts are the shorebirds scurrying back and forth just beyond the edge of an oncoming wave.” – Tom Gillaspy
Living space
Functional touch
Relaxing solace
The Whalehead Club in historic Corolla offers free light shows most evenings.
“It’s calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.” – Fiona Apple
Moving around
Catching a wave
Indefinitely wild
Although inherently inappropriate, a car on the beach can be used for an aesthetic rendering.
“Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.” – John Tyndall
Physical substances
Entailment relations
Fundamental necessity
The local swamp is densely wooded and full of life.
“A nominal essence, on the other hand, is an abstract idea that we make when we identify similar qualities shared by objects; the nominal essence is the idea of those shared similarities.” – Jan-Erik Jones
Folded strata
Gravity action
Enclose on all sides
Intricate patterns present at major boundary junctions on the beach.
“Beautiful is what we see, more beautiful is what we know, most beautiful by far is what we don’t.” – Nicholas Steno
Evident compulsion
Chromatic tones
Active aspect
Flowers come and go, marking the passage of time and responding to seasonal forces.
“Here was a flower strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too.” – Thomas M. Disch