05 Saturday Aug 2017
Posted in challenges, photos
I’m on Main Beach on the Gold Coast, a long beach whose end I am not drawn too because there are no cliffs, only this:
While the rest of the mob swim and do backflips from a sandhill, I idle for five minutes with a piece of dried seaweed, capturing its detail and then using it to frame the sea.
This week, DesleyJane’s RegularRandom spends five glorious minutes with an elegantly fading ranunculus and captures some beautiful images.
It seems I may be part of a framing tradition!
19 Friday Dec 2014
Posted in photos, Queensland
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An early knock on the caravan door has me out of bed and ready for the beach in five quick minutes. We park opposite Sea World and walk along a track to the beach: dog-with-a-purple-collar, two surfers, a swimmer, and a hanger-on grandma who forgot to bring swimming gear to Queensland in summer.
Join me as I amble down to the beach past unfamiliar plants, and, after a paddle, return behind the dunes to sit in my low sand-chair in the shade. Watch a runner who stops to do twenty push-ups, runs away, returns and does twenty more. Notice two ground birds skulking through the grass, and a butterfly skimming above them. Maintain silence as I try to catch up with my neglected diary.
The dog with the purple collar and the woman with long legs and a filmy dress crest the sandhills; the girl with a body board on a lead comes up the track: the man on the board swoops across the horizon on a wave and then jogs towards us. The family has assembled and we return up the mountain to the boy left behind to sleep.
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