Seeing 2011 (#168)

For your consideration: a canvas infused with a dominant tone of melancholy, somber emptiness; the overall sense is that of an expansive void overwhelming any notion of energetic life — the abandoned deck does nothing to suggest any current sentient activity whatsoever.

Yet from the vast, seemingly limitless plane of dreary loneliness arrives a singular, potent reminder of a profound truth: hour by hour, tirelessly, relentlessly and (for all intents and purposes) eternally, a state of perpetual and constant change exists and persists. An unfathomable number of waves will continue their march to shore long after the architectures of Man decay and are swept aside. Observed or not, the ocean remains restless, dynamic, and a source of energy beyond comprehension.

Unceasing impermanence on a grand scale.

Seaside Seas, #1825-7D

© 2011 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: September 24, 2011; Canon 7D; f/11 @ 1/400 sec; — 2/3 EV; ISO 500; Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS @ 64mm

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