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WPC: Happy Place

sunrise

My happy place is definitely the shore. No question. I especially like rising early to catch the sunrise if I’m in the right place, or catch the sunset on the other side of Florida.

fishingThis sunrise is especially nice. The picture was taken on a recent family vacation to Florida that included almost the whole family. That mean a lot of early rising for fishing.
I don’t fish, but I do like coming along for togetherness — a lot of silent sitting together. Isn’t that one of the special things about being with people you love? Being able to sit in the quiet confidence that no entertainment is necessary, no conversation, just presence.

 

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WPC: Creepy not Creepy

creey

I took this creepy picture with my iphone 6 using no filters or HD settings. It was late at night and although there was a little moonlight, a storm was coming in and lightning ended up being the source of illumination.

I’m usually a big fan of storms, and this one brought in lots of thunder and lightning.

It looks super grainy to me, almost like’s a B&W newspaper clipping, but I like it. It’s mysterious.

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a little motion in the ocean

I cheated on this week’s challenge to capture motion. I went to the beach last weekend with high hopes of getting some good photography in — gotta get my 10,000 hours in this fledgling hobby of mine! Unfortunately, the weather didn’t cooperate. I got a few good stills that I liked and included here, but overall it was overcast and stormy most of the time. I tried to get some birds in  flight not doing the usual — flying. I got one eating a little fish that a fisherman threw to him. He had to wait for the tail to quit flailing before he swallowed it, and a gull that landed, its wings still stretched out.

One of the things that delights me about this beach happens twice a day. Pods of porpoises swim west in the early morning, and return in the later afternoon and swim east. We’re on a peninsula and I think they must be going to the bay west of us to feed.

I’ve never been able to get good pictures. This time, with a better camera in hand, I was caught unaware and missed one of them jumping out of the water like Flipper. I switched to video hoping to catch it again, but all I got was two pods swimming along. That’s plenty of motion for the morning.

Here’s a bonus:

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