Tag Archives: Beach images

I would have to say that my muse is the sea–but not the open sea. Rather, where it meets the land.

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I love sand and the things it collects: seashells, jellyfish, sand dollars, starfish, puff fish, sand pipers, sea turtles and even the people who collect at the beach.  It is like they have retreated as far as possible–the next step is either a boat or drowning!  They tend to be individuals, slightly odd–kind of like the people from the western world who congregate in third world locales like Africa.  Perhaps they are this age’s pioneers or trappers.

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Oh yes.  I do love the oceanside, the beach.  Salt. Sand.  I love what collects above the beach as well: frigate birds and pelicans, ibises, sun, moon, clouds.  Above are some of the thousands of images of the beach I’ve collected over the past ten years or so.

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Muse.” What subject do you keep coming back to again and again?

One Word Photo Challenge: Hot

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Can’t get any hotter than this globo (hot air balloon) falling from the sky over Ajijic, Mexico.


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The admittedly augmented hot lamp was in Morehouse, Missouri.  Can’t blame a girl for cheating to meet a prompt.


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                                    These may not be the hottest chilis on your plate,

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Early Bird Photo Challenge

Early Birds at the Beach

When I am at the beach, the first light of day for me is always the moon, which is still up at 6 when I begin my beach walk.  If I’m lucky, I’ll make it the 5 miles to Boca de Iguana and back before the sun is fully up.  Much as I love sunlight, my particular pigment demands that I enjoy it from the shade.

As the sun comes up but does not yet peek over the mountains and palm trees, the birds and I comb the beach. I find an already-drying starfish.  The Caracara bird finds a fish, the sandpipers and gulls various delicacies barely buried in the sand.  Before me, I see only two earlier human birds than I, their evidence left by their footprints.

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