Not Loch Ness

(JP in a cameo role.)

Understory

What do you see?
What's happening?
How does the shot feel to you?

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Or, is this is a crime scene photograph?
If so, what's the crime?
What happened?
Or, is it about to happen?

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Story-thoughts always make me happy.

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"Why do you think in terms of crime, Matt, especially crime stories?" a friend asks.

Family tradition?

Literary tradition?

Even Homer's epics are crime stories, if you want to take that angle . . . .

Understory II

A Favorite View

From the water to the trees.

Hungry Urchin

The Forest

I call this beauty.

Kelp forest beauty.

Water is the Medium

Blades

Kelp (Forest) Love

These shots aren't as crisp as I'd like, but I still like them.  I still like them as aids to memory.

Curious Yellow

Shift the horizon out of true and there's a different sort of truth available, I think.

Here: paddling past Monterey harbor and breakwater with the town in the background as well--though a bit of swell makes that view slightly kiltered.

Shift from one horizon to another, and you'll make another sort of truth available too.

--I'm the kiltered one with this shot, though that is the true view while paddling, the horizon at a slight slant.  If you are lucky, kayaking (and swimming) will leave you feeling that rocking-swaying-surging in your soul and bones, proprioceptively, long after the sea-session ends, even unto bedtime.  If you are really lucky, you'll wake with such sea-legs.

Get kiltered: not a bad motto these days . . . .

Identity Crisis

Superhero or nemesis?

Musing

Fog and tide shift the profile here from the familiar to the mysterious.

Free Diving: Down, Around, and Up Again

Low visibility shots: hold your breath.

Mother-of-pearl, the decaying shell of an abalone, shining through the bottom rubble.

Slightly out of focus, as the swell pulls me away from the bottom.

Poor visibility--as often the case in California--but for me that increases the wonders when one swims down, swims close.

I wonder what's over there, through there.

Snails continuing sea urchin depredation?

A murky photo that catches the actual experience, I think.

Likewise, an overbright shot that reveals that shift from the dark depths, even just a dozen or so feet down, to the sunshine surface.  It was actually foggy up there, but the overbright contrast is due to my amphib-camera struggling to make that shift.

Triad

Treading water in place; then swimming forward.
Looking to see.

Risk Assessment

Mendocino sea-cave that leads through a cathedral arch to an amphitheatre.

The swell was a bit too high and the tide too low to pass through that arch safely. At a low tide, the bottom of the arch pinches inward, and with this swell a more skilled paddler could ride in on the wave, but the risk of being jammed down into that crevice was too high for me.

Superficial: 7 Shots