Notes:
- Video from this morning’s walk at Cove Island Park. 6:00 am. 48° F, feels like 43° F. For photos from this morning’s walk, click here.
- Post title: Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt (Tin House Books, March 7, 2023)
Tag: wave
The DroneScape: Outback SA
Drone shot over the Outback in South Australia.
Don’t miss Gabriel Scanu’s other amazing shots at Fubiz Media: Amazing Drone Landscape Photography.
Find his website here: Gabe. And his Instagram site here: Gab Scanu
Source: This Isn’t Happiness
Suddenly it lay before us, restless, mighty and unending.
The sea came towards us like an immense silver sail.
Long before we reached it we could detect its salt breath;
the horizon became ever brighter and more distant,
and suddenly it lay before us, restless, mighty and unending.
~ Erich Maria Remarque, from Three Comrades
Notes: Prose – the distance between two doors. Photo: Shae Fierce
It’s been a long day…
This is one of the finalists in Smithsonian.com’s 12th Annual Photo Contest. It was selected from over 26,500 entires by photographers from 93 different countries. This photo of a wave striking an elephant seal pup was taken by Anthony Smith on South Georgia Island in January, 2014. “Young elephant seals were sprawled all over the upper beaches in a remote sub-Antarctic region of the Atlantic, but for some reason this youngster had chose to lie down to rest right within the surf!” says Smith.
Don’t miss the other finalists here at Smithsonian.com: 12th Annual Photo Contest Finalists
Sunday Morning: The inrush of power and light
Share Inspired by Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek:
“We bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and light, the canary that sings on the skull. Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous…”
Image Source: The Coast by NRS Films via vimeo.