Sunday, December 11, 2011

Beach Reflections

The combination of bright sunshine, warm relaxation and water seems to spontaneously ignite bright colors along the beaches.

Sometimes I wonder if it is the explosion of colors at sunrise and sunset, painting everything in ranges of reds, that inspires us to such riotous colors, or if it's the relative lack of color on the beach during the blinding days that demands intervention.

But after collecting images from all different times of day, I am left with the notion that the range of perspective and color, combined with the recreational nature of the beach is what opens people to creativity. Suddenly a palm branch can become a monster's jaws expelling a tendril tongue reaching out to lasso a retreating beach walker in the distance...