Heroes Not Zombies

I have a lot of photos like this – well, when I say “like this” I mean a photo of water and sky. Of course, this particular photo is different from all the other ones. No other photo of mine shows a mostly green stretch of water with a completely different blue band beyond it, and such a pale blue sky above.

Something else catches my attention here. The green water seems a whole degree calmer than the blue. Look carefully and you’ll see all the breaking waves sparkling white on the surface of that further away stretch. More than that, the change isn’t gradual, it’s sudden. It’s as if there is a boundary running through the ocean itself.

But what draws me again and again to these images, and even more, to the experiences of actually standing on the coast somewhere gazing out over the seemingly endless ocean.

There is something transcendental about the sight, the sound and the smell of the ocean. It dissolves the close boundaries of the self. It makes me feel very alive.

It heightens all the senses, evokes wonderful memories and stirs the imagination.