Up Tight

Out of sight
Middle ground
Fine balancing

Predicable problems ensue when too many big houses are built on small adjacent lots.

“At all times let a person be supple as the reed and not rigid as the cedar.” – Rabbi Nathan

Small Details

Incidental elements
Attendant oxidation
Concomitant structure

Shifting subjects helps to keep the aesthetic fibers limber.

“Excluding parts of the whole story will make the viewer think for themselves.” – Carl Johan Johansson

Beach Walkover

Sun rise
Motion blur
Mystical place

The world opens up as a function of the imagination.

“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives.” – Anthon St. Maarten

Cypress Tree

Ancient moment
Buttressed majesty
Needles coppery red

Sharing the water with its shadow, this cypress tree is relatively old and well adapted to its prevailing circumstances.

“On the Outer Banks, bald cypresses flourish in our shallow sound side waters and maritime swamp forests.” – Lexi Holian

Storm before Dawn

Implicit energy
Absolute freedom
Significance of the wild

Regardless of weather conditions and their associated comfort level, the dynamic spectacle freely presented each and every morning encourages aesthetic participation.

“The core of Transcendentalism was the belief that a correspondence or parallelism existed between the higher realm of spiritual truth and the
lower one of material objects.”
– Roderick Frazier Nash

Temporary Tributary

Surface water
Affluent surge
Late downstream

Rain water does not drain well on a large sandbar landform. Such a low wet-area germinates a range of distinctive vegetation and attracts a particular variety of birds and other wildlife.

“Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.” – George Eliot

Mind Invention

Different world
Contact knowledge
Wonderful wonderment

Abstraction builds formidable understanding.

“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” – M.C. Escher

Light Wave

Water transmitted
Low sun angle
Early morning

Seeing things in the moment and trying new capture techniques keeps life interesting.

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.” – John Lubbock

Proper Place

Littered beaches
Civilization seed
Bitter future

Some discarded refuse remains in the ecosystem for a long time.

“The scale of the mess we leave behind is proportionate to the level of respect we have for others.” – Stewart Stafford

Cephalopod Mollusks

Distinct head
Bilateral symmetry
Mantle and arms

Colorful discarded bait temporarily decorates the beach.

“Anything that will bite a hook can be caught with squid.” – Dawn Aylesworth

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