My Sony Cybershot is barely interred before I’m taking a daybreak walk along the beach with a replacement camera slung around my neck. No Victorian period of mourning for this heartless woman. The camera is not, however, THE replacement. That will have to wait till I go through that awful process of making a decision. It’s a cheap Fuji Finepix, bought to replace the last camera I killed when I fell getting out of a boat – again in 2″ of water. J is only an intermittent photographer and he passed it on to me almost with glee: he hates the business of downloading and discarding. He’d rather not photograph at all.
I leave my empty house just before daybreak. My Queensland mob are safely back home, and I’m enjoying a tidiness I fear won’t survive long. All the windows are open and the cool air is pouring in. By the time I return home, light has joined it.
I use the walk to explore the simple programming of the camera, via a menu more accessible than the one on my dear deceased. When I look through the results, I decide the colour is a bit bland, and since I don’t have as many megapixels to play with, 12 as opposed to 20, cropping isn’t as effective. So, Sony Cybershot, you are still superior, and hold an unrivalled place in my heart.
Thanks to the morning light / thanks to the foaming sea: so wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. I feel that gratitude every time I walk along the beach at daybreak, and even more so this time. No camera could fail to be charmed into delivering delicious shots full of radiance. Lemony Snicket is on the money too: how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have. Yesterday was a gleaming day.
Your ‘delicious shots of radiance’ even from this virtual distance distil admiration. What a way to start your day.
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Should do it more often!
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Jealous! Too rainy, gloomy and cold for a walk today. But the temperature is 2 C!
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You say 2° joyfully. Where are you?
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Even with a temporary replacement camera, your photos are beautiful, Meg! I feel the tranquility of your walk, and it suggests that I may need that kind of walk myself right now.
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They’re beautiful shots Meg. Gleaming indeed. 💕
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You’ve not only captured the sealight here, Meg, but also the sense of a wonderful day ahead. It literally lifted me up, like a big wave of joy. Thank you!
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I’m glad it served you as well as it served me!
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Top photos again Meg. thanks again. I still love the South Coast and just sad we can’t do it justice no more.
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It is sad. I’m so lucky to live her.
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I wish I could take a gentle stroll to reach such a beautiful place Meg. Good luck with your camera hunt. Jude and I have the same one, an Olympus compact system and it’s a brilliant little thing.
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I’m not looking forward to choosing or learning. I have a feeling I’ll get the same again.
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These are gorgeous photos. I love the pink light on the Neptune’s Necklace and the bubbles around the pebble. I am very fond of the Fuji Finepix range. I’ve taken some good photos with Fuji cameras and still wish I had wrecked the best one dropping it on some rocks. Beach photograph definitely has its hazards.
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I’d’ve understood a rock accident. But in 2” of water????
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It’s like these cameras have a built in use by date – they are programmed to self destruct by any available means when their time is up. 🙂
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Sigh… I wish I lived as close to the beach as you do. I am too lazy to get into the car to drive to the beach, but looking at your photos I wish I wasn’t…
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A few morning shoots have been further away. One 20km, my birthday one last year 37 km. You’d be closer than that! Mind you, I do this maybe once a year. I’m aiming for an evening walk today, inspired by you.
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Luscious, soft, pearly images, Meg! And just what I need to round off my Monday walk. Thank you so much. It’s simply delicious 🙂 🙂
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That’s what I thought. Slept in this morning and missed daybreak and solitude.
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I hate to do that. Mick is in a spell of waking around 3 and tossing and turning. Sometimes I get up and watch the tennis or we both toss and turn. And I half doze and wake up grumpy xx
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Tell me about it! Love you xx
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Beautiful walk! I love the close-up shots of the seashells and other bounty from the sea. 🙂
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Bounty is exactly the word
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As our footballers are fond of saying “The boy done good” but substitute for ‘the boy’,’the camera’, and you’ve got it.
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Thank you. It needed a little bit of post-processing, but then so did photos from my defunct camera.
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