Beautiful Tiny Beach

Apr 27, 2010 by Ange

I recently described how my kids and I went for a walk to one of the beaches on the Songhees Trail in Victoria BC. These are some of the photos I took of minutiae and creatures I observed there. Tiny, perfect details are what I seek in what I see, create, and surround myself with.

Look at the colour of this. The texture. The shine and translucency of it. Do you want to touch it? Can you imagine fabric like this? A hat? What about a web page incorporating these colours?

Look at how soft the light is. It’s the endless hush of the West Coast seashore. Blue-grey and clear with infinite detail. Simple, quiet light for an expanse so powerful.

 

This crab was killed for food. I have hidden the wound.

Look at the red ruffle of its shell. How the lip of it curves up like a shallow wave, echoing the world it lived in. See it in the water? How it moved and danced along the shore? How bright it is now against the greys of the sand and rocks.

 

I have read beach glass described as the only gemstone made by man and shaped by nature.

 

                   

                   
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Look at how nature has arranged every detail. I was fortunate enough to photograph these things exactly as I found them. It’s amazing much beauty there is in unexpected places. This is what I see when I go outside. This is what I seek.