Storm Coming, Kiawah Island
"Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore."
Dorothea Lange
This week Sofia asks us to share images of water in motion and for me the biggest challenge was paring down my choices, As one who lives at the beach, water surrounds me, and it is rarely still 😊. I've challenged myself to include only two of my favorite images of the moving seas of Kiawah,. My opening image was captured during a lovely sunset which occurred just before the arrival of a major storm. (You can see it in the clouds between the sky and the sea.) In the image below, I was transfixed by the photographer standing on his small island as the sea churned around him.
Photographer at Work, Kiawah Island
"The most important thing I have learned is to observe the beautiful effects of atmosphere and light."
Leonard Misonne
The waves of the ocean are always on the move. So too are the creatures that frolic and swim in them - for example those I've featured below. I've posted about our unique dolphin stranding in the past and most all of the friends and family who have visited us through the years have experienced it. It's amazing to watch.
"There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more."
Albert Einstein
Leaving Kiawah for some other moving waters, I've included some very different creatures in the next image. They too feed on the fish (in this case salmon) that inhabit their unique environment.
Grizzies, Brooks Falls, Alaska
"The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey."
Craig Childs
In a far less threatening environment, I've included the lovely moving waters that appear in some of the fountains I've seen in my travels. On the left top, the entrance to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, on the right our welcoming pineapple fountain here in downtown Charleston, and on the bottom a fun water element in Scottsdale, AZ.
Three Fountains, No Coins
"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love."
Sophia Loren
We can portray ocean waters as moving gently by using slow ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) as I did for the image that follows.
Smooth Sailing, Kiawah Island
"Inside movement there is one moment at which the elements in motion are in balance. Photography must seize upon this moment..."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
We can also portray more aggressive water as in the images below. On the left, an example of a calving iceberg, on the right ocean waves violently crashing into Oregon's rocky coast.
Nature's Wrath
"You can't reproduce nature with a photograph or a painting. You can only honour it."
Andy Greaves
Mother Nature calls the shots of course, whether we like it or not. I've included two examples below that can often interrupt our best laid plans.
Snow and Rain
"I wait for the right season, the right weather, and the right time of day or night, to get the picture which I know to be there."
Bill Brandt
I'll close with two captures of moving water that make me smile. The first is a little painted bunting taking a quick splash in my neighbors' birdbath, the second a joyful moment at a wedding I photographed not long ago. I hope they will bring you a smile as well.
Wet Paint(ed Bunting)
"A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
Maya Angelou
Happy Couple and Water Bubbles
"Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds."
Carl Sandburg
I enjoyed putting my post together for this week's challenge and offer my thanks to Sofia for leading us. Please remember to link your responses to her beautiful original here, and to use the Lens-Artists Tag to help us find you. Thanks also to all who responded to and/or commented on my People Here,There and Everywhere challenge last week. It seems most all of us share a shyness about approaching strangers but somehow have overcome it, or have gotten creative in other ways. It was great to see the results of that creativity. Last but never least, we hope you'll join us next week when John leads us once again on his Journeys with Johnbo site. In the meanwhile, as always please stay safe, be kind and enjoy the journey.
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