Just submerged. Just the right angle of the sun. Three points of light.
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A Bowl of Sunshine
The days are so short in December … How about a bowl of warm sunshine to start the day?
I love how the very early sunshine makes this ancient shell look like carved marble. What luck to stumble upon this right at this moment! The mussel serves to draw the eye to the center light.
Still Life with Light, Sand, and Mussel
The light is the dominant object in this still life; it is more present than the shell or all the sand.
Still Life Composition of Shell, Ocean, and Light
The beauty of this still life is that it is all here in a size that would fit in the palm of a hand.
The curves and rim of this particular mussel shell are especially sensuous. The scattering of sand in its bowl, deposited by the tide, is placed perfectly, gently. The so-tiny splashes of water enhance the interior of the shell and the grains of sand that are contained within it.
What I find most lovely, though is the light that is captured by gleaming white interior of the shell. The sunlight accentuates the scalloping pattern, and creates a small iridescent patch. A hidden rainbow.
Most of the time, the still lifes that I find are larger, more traditional and fitting to art’s description of a still life. Here, though, the arrangement is composed of not multiple different objects, but of the land, sea, and sky together.
Shell, ocean, and light perfectly composed to delight.
I wonder how many tiny treasures such as this one I miss when I walk the tide line . . .
Shining Through
The power of the waves impaled this crab carapace upright on the tideline . . . perfectly aligned with the very early morning sun. The glow was visible from quite a number of meters away, positively gorgeous. It seemed the … Continue reading
Camel Coral
At any other time of the day this shadow would have been missing. The coral itself is unremarkable, but the of the shadow by the very early, low-in-the-sky sunlight formed a fun figure on the sand.
