Twilight.
Settling over the beach.
The sand-dune scrub. A blaze of green and purple.
Light fading. Something whispered: Make a rockpile. QUICKLY. ~Ally.
It had been the most Beautiful Day spent walking along the shoreline of Boomerang Beach (See the note below) from one end to the other.
The day has been filled with so many Magical Moments: The highlight was being given a crimson red starfish while photographing the rockpools at the other end of the beach.
Coming to the other end of the beach: I photographed the steep slopes covered in wild scrub: Tea Tree, Cotton Palms and Old Man Banksias, moving down into Lomandra and other native wild grasses surrounding lichen-covered rocks, moving down into the white squeaky sand. I hope to publish a series of photographs of this escarpment area for the Color Challenge, Thursday Green soon.
All of a sudden it was twilight and I was ready to call it a day. However, my attention was drawn to the enlivened contrast of the orange lichen on the steel blue rocks in the early evening light. Without thinking too much, I started picking up, holding and looking at some of the smaller rocks surrounding the larger rocks. And then something whispered: Make a rockpile. QUICKLY.
I made the first one: The one in the foreground of this image.
Something whispered: Make another as a companion. The light was so dim at this stage. It would be a total waste of time and energy to photograph it, I thought. But just for my own record, I did.
Often secrets. Lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people. ~John O'Donohue.
Photograph: ©Alison Lee Cousland.
SONY Mark2 A7: ISO 800: 35 mm: f/4: 1/1000 sec.
Something whispered: Make another. And I did.
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. ~John O'Donohue.
Photograph: ©Alison Lee Cousland.
SONY Mark2 A7: ISO 800: 35 mm: f/4: 1/1000 sec.
The steep slopes covered in windswept native trees and shrubs, directly behind the rock piles. Photographed before the creation of the rock piles.
Our real life comes to the surface and its light awakens the concealed beauty in things. When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. ~John O'Donohue.
Photograph: ©Alison Lee Cousland.
SONY Mark2 A7: ISO 800: 35 mm: f/4: 1/1000 sec.
As I was about to walk away from the rockpiles, I looked out to sea and saw a pod of dolphins. Can you imagine how I felt?
All I can say is that I had a heartfelt sense that these simple piles of rocks that had been created to stand there for who knows how long (Maybe just for that night before someone would rearrange them the following morning? Maybe they are still there?) had an energy in their making that was somehow intertwined with the dolphins being there.
I am delighted to present these images now. Especially as I'd held no expectations that the rock piles would be at all visible.
Boomerang Beach.
Towards the end of last year a friend and I stayed in a house that was only a 10 minute walk, skip and a jump away from Boomerang Beach.
Named for its boomerang shape, Boomerang Beach is 400 kms north of Sydney and is renowned for its crystal clear waters, white sand, sheltered reef outcrops and some of the most ideallic surfing waves.
Not surprisingly this beautiful beach attracts surfering enthusiasts from near and far. A surprise awaits anyone who can tell me what else I saw in the water, apart from swimmers and surfers, the day before I saw the pod of dolphins.
'True friendship and Dolphins' is for:
- @barbara-orenya's Beautiful Day
- @sunscape's 'Nature's Beauty'
- @magicalmoments 'Magical Moments'
- @kalemandra's Color Challenge of Saturday Indigo.