A Pinkish Afternoon...No Clouds & A Blurry Dog

A bit of a dash out to the water this afternoon to practice some more Long Exposures.

I tried to get Rumi to sit still for the length of the shutter but he wasn't understanding what I was asking him (silly dog) and kept on moving his head....what a good boy to sit there though.

I never realised how much I relied on clouds for some drama in my pics and I have to say that it has been very thin on the cloud action lately and now I am getting used to milking the most out of a cloudless sky and looking for its beauty.......I think Ive got it now.

I have posted this before but I wanted to again....I love this and this is for Fluffy and her kiddywinks.

I am standing upon the seashore.

A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.

She is an object of beauty and strength.

I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."
"Gone where?" Gone from my sight. That is all.

She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her.

And just at the moment when someone at my side says, "There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming, and there are other voices ready to take up the glad shout,

"Here she comes!"

And that is dying.

- Rev. Henry Van Dyke