Three days in a row with temperatures over 40 degreesC had taken their toll and despite the ominous clouds and the expectant change people flocked to the beaches in droves to escape the saturated heat of the suburbs. When I got down to Henley beach around 8 pm this evening the sky was a sullen […]
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When the sunset plays the game of pretending to be over it pays to stay a while, to look up, to look around and to look behind. Sneaking up from behind, the clouds, now struck with the sun’s golden receding light, have become a new source to colour the world before twilight takes hold. I […]
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It has been way too long since I ventured down to our local beach to take in the salty sea air, wet sand between my toes and a gorgeous Henley Beach sunset. Even longer since I captured one. With Adelaide’s current crazy post Christmas weather, ie 40 degrees one day and 20 degrees the next, […]
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It’s like playing dare with the ocean. I watch for a while. Some surges rush by, water pushing and swirling past ankles and splashing my knees. Other incoming waves stack up full of pent-up fury before consuming themselves in the retreating backwash and leaving the sand wet and bare. I place my bet, position my […]
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Fifteen minutes after sunset the colour in the west reddened and deepened becoming more and more intense. Despite the richness of colour on the horizon there was not enough light to remove the stormy gloom making he sky all the more surreal. … and then she ran out into the surf chasing the last of […]
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