Lighting the Dark Side.

With the day turning into the most beautiful autumnal sunshine and mellow breeze I couldn’t resist swimming mid afternoon. The water felt just cool, but it was the light cast up by the water which was so special. 

This is the dark underside of the floating pontoon. It is usually the drab home to stunted waterweed and brave spiders but today it looked as if dazzling white spotlights had been turned on under each section. Unlike a sweeping beam though it mirrored the ripples’ constant movement in a kaleidoscope of shimmering pattern; something that the still photo doesn’t do justice to. I'm not sure why it had such fierce opalescence. In summer the ripples are golden, but perhaps it was the angle of the October sun, presaging frosts to come.


Getting the picture was a bit more tricky than I thought!  It is very difficult to swim, hold your phone out of the water and aim without wobbles at your point of focus. Luckily, I could just reach the bottom with my toes if I kept my mouth shut but as I ballerina stretched my leg down, my cold right calf-muscle went into excruciating cramp.  Yeeow! The phone was tossed up onto the pontoon and in a waterlogged corkscrew limp I flailed back to dry land…
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