
summer storm victim
seeking rest
This head of seaweed was peacefully floating beside the Black Rock sea wall on Port Phillip Bay. It could have been torn off the growing plant by strong currents stirred up by a storm a few days earlier. Maggie and I and walk this route often and also get Jill to join us whenever she can. My practice is to carry a camera on these walks as there are many natural treasures waiting to be captured. The camera/lens combinationd can be heavy if I want close ups, especially the telephoto lens. The other challenge is holding Maggie with one hand while photographing with the other. Occasionally I leave the camera at home and of course an exceptional opportunity like a penguin pops up.
Gentle beauty.
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Thanks Sandra, it will drift a while yet.
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The haiku and image complement each other beautifully Denis š
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Thanks Xenia. It was waiting to be recognised.
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Never know what one will encounter on a walk. That’s one of the things I love about photography. Always something interesting to capture in nature. That’s quite the challenge to photograph with one hand. Lovely fan-shape to this seaweed. Perfect haiku to describe the moment.
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Thanks Olga. One never needs to wander far for inspiration as we bloggers all learn from each other
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Oddly beautiful
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Thanks Annette. It was just floating there waiting to be photographed.
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A beautiful capture in photo, haiku and story. That is quite a feat taking photos while holding Maggie. I find it hard enough multitasking with a phone camera.
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Thanks for your generous words Janice. My camera has anti shake on it and that works quite well.
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Anti-shake sounds like a useful feature to accompany a dog and leash balancing act š
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It sure does, that is one reason I have Pentax DSLR’s
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This is beautiful! At first look, I thought it was a bird. Nice work Denis.
Pat
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It was rather unique Pat, yet under water this head of seaweed was one of many.
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The photo looks so surreal. You’ve encountered penguins before?
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It certainly was Magarisa especially with those bubbles the made it appear to be breathing. Yes Little Penguins live in the seawalls and on a local breakwater. Tourists fly in from Asia and travel 150 k from Melbourne on package tours to see them . If we are lucky it is a few minutes by car in the middle coastline of the Bay Melbourne is situated on.
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You are fortunate to live so close to these penguins. Would love to see them someday.
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here is a link to the Penguin Tourist Park about 150 k away.
https://www.penguins.org.au/attractions/penguin-parade/ Same penguins as we have here except not as many here.
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Thank you for the link, Denis.
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