Archives: Picture of the Week
I captured this image while working for Smithsonian Institution. My assignment was to photograph wilderness areas of Florida, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina for a guide book to the natural areas of those states.
Birth of an island. All it takes is a sandbar and a sprouting coconut and in a short time, geologically speaking, a new island will come to life. Of course you must add current, tide and wind with a dose of sunlight as your principal ingredients, and leave the bulldozers and condos for much later, for it to all work.
This past week Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands were once again struck by a tsunami, which tragically killed hundreds of people and left villages in complete ruin. The Mentawai Islands lie within the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’, an area in constant danger for catastrophe spawned from deep within the Earth.
Morning Commute. This morning as I commuted to work from my bedroom to my office on the opposite side of the house, I fondly remembered this elderly couple in the Azores. Their commute to work was a bit different and made me glad to have remembered theirs.
A lip about to unfold. The lip of a wave at the very moment the off-shore winds begins to shape it, to give it texture, to add crescendo and a few extra seconds to its fleeting life and to give meaning to the unseen, undulating water molecules before all of it crashes, dissipates, is no more. It would be sad except another wave soon follows and the process of this final act begins all over.
A mysterious woman is awash by the oncoming waves. A few days earlier I was photographing the movement of water along the tidal line. The light was of the sky’s reflection at dusk and the combination of water and camera movement created surreal effects.