Seascape vastness
Perception canvas
Ever-changing nature
Our experience of the world is shaped by our interactions with it.
“Nature is not a spectacle; it is a world in which we are engaged. It is a world that speaks to us, that questions us, that challenges us.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Back on the coast
Wheels turning
Energy releasing
Time out of mind.
“It’s hard to bullshit the ocean. It’s not listening, you know what I mean.” – David Crosby
Constant motion
Morning prime
Edge appearance
There is a visceral feeling of connection to existence during an ocean sunrise.
“Sunrise – you can watch it, you can breathe it, you hear it, you can touch it, you can taste it, and you can feel it.”– Louis de Port
Lots of wind
A bit raw
Wonderful
Often the best times for photography are consider to be inclement by the timid.
“Because this storm isn’t something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside you.” – Haruki Murakami
Good chemistry
Familiarity recycle
Mystical experience
Looking south over the barrier island’s delineated shoreline, I stand in the ocean tidal flow before dawn.
“Ocean is more ancient than the mountains and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.” – H. P. Lovecraft
Momentary duration
Long time coming
Long time gone
Results sometimes exceed expectations.
“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.” – Brandon Sanderson
Swirling mute skies
Distant feelings
Horizon vitality
A day breaks in the middle of an approaching storm.
“Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stormy day
Intense energy
Luxuriant spectacle
Looking south into the vast beyond.
“So many things have been shown so to me on these banks, so much light has illumined me by reflection here where the water comes down, that I can hardly believe that this grace never flags, that the pouring from ever-renewable sources is endless, impartial, and free.” — Annie Dillard
Actualized in
Multifarious ways
Reference inspiration
Various currents across the spectrum of time actuate on the beach.
“Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.” – Immanuel Kant
In so far as
Experiences inasmuch
Arrange themselves
Time as a function of motion in an endless cycle.
“To analyze time is not to follow out the consequences of a per-established conception of subjectivity, it is to gain access, through time, to its concrete structure.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty