We are water and water is life. It surrounds us and sustains us. Our planet, ourselves, are composed of and yet require water. Living as we do on the coast, our daily navigations traverse an epic meeting of land and ocean. Our coastal strip is further riven by other bodies of water.. rivers opening to the ocean, lagoons commingling fresh and sea water and changing with the tides. With the addition of water, delivered via rain, our landscapes are transformed. Water is a recurrent theme in our artistic lives, spending weeks each year underwater, communing with flashing schools of fish, sharks and colorful denizens of down under, adapting our lives to the ocean’s special rhythm. We have kayaked to remote areas, hiked to thundering waterfalls…wherever we are, we are drawn to water. A small selection of some favorite images explores the many guises of water:
The coast:
At the end of the road at the northernmost point of Fiji’s largest island, Viti Levu
Fiji
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San Elijo Lagoon
Pier, Naoshima Island, Japan
Underwater:
Famed Fijian dive site, the Great White Wall, in the Somosomo Strait
Vatadamu Point (Somosomo Strait, Fiji): a whip coral shrimp
Fiji’s Somosomo Strait, a flatworm on a tunicate
Zebra crab on fire urchin
Blue ring octopus, Anilao, Philippines
A beautiful spider crab (Xenocarcinus conicus) on a matching gorgonian
Lakes:
Jenny Lake, Grand Teton
Watson Lake, near Prescott, Az
Abstracted:
The power of water:
Carving rock through the years, Gooseneck Park
It thunders (waterfalls):
Montmorency Falls, Near Québec City
Iceland
In gaseous forms:
Old Faithful geyser and a full moon
Norris Geyser Basin and a slice of the Gibbon River in Yellowstone
Tree near Lake Yellowstone isolated by early morning fog
Frozen:
Sedona as a Chinese landscape painting: West Fork of Oak Creek, February, 2016
Icelandic jewel, bergie bit on beach
Antarctica
Water as a barrier:
Cuban fisherman on the Malecon
An underground river system:
Cenote, Yucatan Peninsula, near Playa del Carmen
Even after effects of water are an interesting line of inquiry (rust, slot canyons, erosion, etc):
Rusting whaling station remains at Deception Island
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“flatworm on a tunicate”! wow! that pic is a grabber for me. kept going back to it. stunning darkness bordered in blue on that worm. very cool propulsion method. ripples, baby. makes me want to float in the Atlantic. thanks Marie.