I mentioned the other day that gulls flew in from out over the ocean. If you click to see the larger version of this image, you can see them coming.
Sometimes the camera remembers things quite differently from the way I remember them, but this sunset evening is the same in both of our memories.
I often mess with things in my pics, to make them more the way I remembered, or just to juice them up (increasing saturation, or adding filters). I cropped these images, and that's the extent of my manipulation.
Isn't this the most amazing light? PhotoFriday's theme a couple weeks ago was "light." I was thrown off -- isn't alllllll photography about light? I wish I had thought to post this image for that theme.....
I had a lovely conversation, that sunset, with a woman who has lived in Ocean City for five years. She said she had seen the ocean in all weather, in all seasons. She had seen the foam frozen in winter's chill, and had seen full moons beaming across the waves, but had never before seen the ocean all pink like this.
I cropped the next one so the horizon and the gull would be in the center, attempting to emphasize the calm and peace and timelessness. It doesn't seem right to me, though, so I guess I'll go back and whack off one side, and then the other, and see if I like one of those versions better..... (Holding my hand over the screen, I like it better with about 1/4 of it whacked off the right side.)
The beach is the place where I feel the most centered. This image is helping me retain some of that peace, far from the sound of the sea.
2 comments:
These are truly beautiful photographs, I love the ocean and sunsets. There is a quality of absolute tranquility here. How lucky you are to have actually been there.
Thank you!
Yes, I feel very lucky to have had two such wonderful days. I only had two days, and for each of them to have been extraordinary.... Very lucky indeed.
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