… what I find beautiful?
Mostly, it would have to do with nature, although I can be inveigled into finding beauty in art and architecture. It seems, from the photos that have made their way into my “miscellaneous beauty” folder that patterns feature a lot in my pantheon, as does the delicacy of dead things. Cruz is beautiful in his general dogginess, and in his totally enviable capacity to leap, sure-footed, from rock to rock. Shade is beautiful, and becoming more so as the weather hots up. Rock pools and their denizens are beautiful: in this case the striped tentacles of a sand anemone. And just look at the scales of the blue tongue lizard, gliding unconcerned by my presence beside a beach track.
Then of course there are the beauties you can't photograph. The touch of sun and breeze on bare skin after it's been incarcerated in clothes all winter. The abrasion of sand between your toes and the swirl of sea around your ankles.
And the whale, just offshore, announcing itself first by a mere puff, followed by a tall thin vertical flipper and a mighty thumping tail, and climaxing its performance with a leap revealing a gleaming silvery-white belly.
This post was prompted by Gilly's “I wonder …” post
restlessjo said:
I did wonder… who’d take up the challenge š I should have known! Game of tag, but I’m not playing. So jealous of you whale watching!
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morselsandscraps said:
J’s eyes again!
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anotherday2paradise said:
Loved this post. Your photography and words blend so perfectly together.
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Lucid Gypsy said:
Well I’m glad you had no choice but to look at the underbelly of the whale even though I’m jealous! Meg you are word smith extraordinaire and I’m glad we share the same space even if it is virtual. I feel I could reach into your photos and see if there is a small pool of water left around the anemones, trace around your patterns and dance my fingers in your shadows.
Now, I’m wondering what I might wonder about next and if we can persuade our lovely gang to join in š
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morselsandscraps said:
I wonder! I’ve already been thinking of other things I wonder about too, but I’m a bit phobic about commitment. I suspect at the moment it might provoke more geology.
I’m a wordsmith??? Your second last sentence is beaten gold.
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Rosemary Barnard said:
I count myself as both geographer and psychologist having trained and worked in both professions. I have only now heard the term “psychogeography”. Thank you Meg.
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morselsandscraps said:
I hope you find it useful! I suspect we’ll be practising it a bit next week.
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Sue said:
Ah, Meg, I love your words! Always something unusual slipped in! Psychogeography? Anyway, that aside, I’m with you on finding patterns and the delicacy of dead things beautiful…..
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morselsandscraps said:
I’ve missed your approval – and no-one’s called me a silly mare for a month!
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Sue said:
Oh dear, you must be getting withdrawal symptoms!
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restlessjo said:
You should have said! I can always oblige š That’s what friends are for.
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pommepal said:
As always your posts inspire me with the beauty of nature you find (playfully as you drift around…) to share with us, and the words you use to describe the things that cannot be caught in a photo.
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morselsandscraps said:
I so wish I could catch a whale! But then, I also want a very small camera. FlĆ¢neur is a word I’ve always liked and I suspect it has the same substance as the more cumbersome psychogeography. Thank you for liking my posts.
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pommepal said:
After checking “flaneur” it does fit you so well… “with a “cool but curious eye” that studies the constantly changing spectacle that parades before him/her”
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Olga said:
I do find a similar attraction to Nature’s beauty. Patterns, shadows, reflections and colours to name a few. Cruz is definitely a beauty. Love how you included those things that can’t be photographed. Wonderful post!
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morselsandscraps said:
Thanks Olga. I regretted not being able to photograph the whale, but it freed me to watch with my eyes rather than the camera lens.
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Olga said:
Sometimes you just have to tuck the camera away and live in the experience.
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morselsandscraps said:
Oh, but it’s so hard!!!!!
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Olga said:
I know!
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desleyjane said:
Lovely shots and thought provoking words….
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morselsandscraps said:
Thanks. Such a comment from the Woman of Dewdrops is worth having.
As an aside, you might be interested in this blog
now you are becoming a denizen of Melbourne. I stumbled across it when I was investigating psychogeography and immediately thought of you.
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desleyjane said:
The Woman of Dewdrops! I must get business cards made with that š thank you!
Ok thanks, I will take a look…. Back shortly.
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desleyjane said:
Hmmnnnn very interesting. I’m very much looking forward to doing photo walks in Melbourne.
By the way, psychogeography?!
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morselsandscraps said:
Courtesy of Mr Wiki:
Psychogeography is an approach to geography that emphasizes playfulness and “drifting” around urban environments … Another definition is “a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities… just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape.”
Will Self is a proponent – used to have a psychogeography column in an English newspaper.
The concept tickled my fancy: it seemed to match my rambling between tram stops in Warsaw and my disconnected but connecting walks along the river road at home.
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desleyjane said:
Well it now tickles my fancy as well. What a great concept.
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pommepal said:
Thank you for giving me this new word, it is perfect, playful, inventive strategies, I love it…
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