This photo once was made because the changing pictures in the shallow water at the beach fascinated me. The lines and layers developed and disappeared in so many constant movements at the same time and after one anotherand never came to a stop. A photo could always catch the fraction of a second of this infinetely ongoing process. For a few minutes I sometimes tried to capture a certain frame of a special pattern here or there, but I had to realise that this was condemmed to fail. Till the moment I could move my finger to take the photo, everything would have changed and look entirely different. Not bad, though.
I have liked this picture only for its simplicity for a long time - there are no contrasts, no strong colours, nothing striking.
Later, I made the discovery, that all four elements have to work together to create such a picture: There's water - obviously - earth (sand), wind and sun.
Each of them helps shaping such a simple thing like the patterns of water and sun on a beach. It's often like this on our earth and in life: Such simple things, but plain beauty, working and ongoing for endless times, and a lot more behind it than one might see at the first look.
:) really like the picture... where exactly did you take it?
AntwortenLöschenthanks... :)
LöschenAt the 'Ijsselmeer' in the Netherlands - even more exactly in Lemmer, when I was there with my youth group two years ago.
I'd even go further: most things seem so simple, so unspectacular - but trying to understand and describe their evolution is almost impossible!
AntwortenLöschenAnother thing: we tend to see things as simply given, they just exist and are at hand - no matter how simple they are, once they are gone, we understand how valuable they were and that they, despite their simplicity, are not easy to recreate!
Life is anything but simply - but beautiful indeed :-)
that's true!
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