Dolphin Address 04
March 1th 2006
Driving behind a snail tourist I noticed I am much more alert on road bends coming home from Ennistymon then when going there. Wondering why I found that nearly all of them go downhill. Towards Ennistymon the car slows down taking them, while going back they speed me up. Gravity works as a seventh gear. The sixth is located between my ears. Therefore I caution and enjoy by gravi-drive. This may seem a bee-line to the obvious, but apparently my evolution needs a few bends to get on track again.
Kite
Verena brought a kite that flies on double lines. On high winds it soars and screams as we steer it towards the blinding sun. No bird dares even to come near its raging range until it crashes its lightning lightweight on the ground in an inadvertent split second.
It’s all for fun, you know, but we did get the idea to angle it for the dolphin, like a remote ‘hello, won’t you come out to play’. But yesterday we spent another afternoon at the Boathouse Bay and though the weather was great for tan and pics we just could not configure a dolphin shape out of the rich wave sculpture.
And what if the kite would dive in the ocean? Would we be able to get a lift-off from the wet? The water repellent fabric would not weigh it down and we might be able to launch it from a high wave. Better try it out when she’s actually there. So many things to do, still.
More than a thousand words…
‘Everything counts in large amounts.’ We’re talking pixels here. Not only have we accumulated quite a number of pictures, some are as large as 19 MB and can be blown up as large as a bedroom wall. They vary from the serenity of dreamy sunsets to the unbridled energy of thundering surfs. From some we crop intricate details like threadlike slashes of foam fingers or the golden lining of an evening cloud set afire by the sinking sun.
In the ‘foto’s’ department we share them with our website visitors after having run them through a reduction program. We are wondering if there would be an option for merchandizing them, like burning them in original pixel size on a CD on particular request. It would mean pressure, spending time on repetitious and non-creative labour, but on greater demand we could delegate this to a third party so we can keep our hands free. Please let us know if you are interested in either and we’ll see what we can do.
Also we’re thinking of grouping our pics into ‘families’, much like we’ve done already in the subject-wise presentation of the ‘foto’s’ department. Verena can thus pick a glorious bouquet of her flower pics and so I can of my favourite waves. So much more we can pour from the Horn of Plenty and now, in the frail days of early spring we’re almost daily documenting the stunning beauty of natural Irish.
It’s very much like yesterday’s distant deep purple shadow of the coast of Lahinch Bay: I look again and it’s gone. Beauty is sudden and stunning but short lived here. Better capture the moment than wait for miracles fancied. Nature’s kaleidoscope is ever changing, for better or for worse. Often you do but realise the beauty when it has gone. Our camera captures the very present present it presents.
Jan Ploeg, Fanore Meadow, 1th March 2006
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