Sublime Sunday - THREE CHAPTERS OF A LONG SUMMER DAY

CHAPTER ONE - MORNING

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The day has just begun ... the air is still fresh and humid ...

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... and some have already taken the fishing positions on the main dock ...

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... here in the small port of Liznjan ... about five kilometers from my home.

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It looks like the anglers arrived here before dawn ... I don't know why :D - but it looks ... like they are here since who knows when ... I don't know, they just seem so awake and comfortable ... not sleepy like me.

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While they are into fishing, I'm collecting the flowers ...

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... buoys ...

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... bubbles ...

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... and other things ... many other things ... well, practically everything ...

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... including the anglers ... to put on photograph.

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I'm here to capture, process and digitize all that water, plastic and complex biological stuff ...

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... and make it fit into another rambling post about nothing in particular :D

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That's why I woke up so early ...

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... I'm on a vague and silly mission, and I'm taking it very seriously.

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The seagulls are strategically deployed all around the port ...

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... waiting for the sun ... or the larger fishing boats with edibles from the deep ... or something else ... and then ....

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... the moment later ...

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... the water turns into liquid gold ...

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... a sea of gold ...

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... this is the right time ...

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... to catch the mythical golden fish ... or some other underwater treasure.

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Everything looks monumental in this light ...

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... even a garbage basket ... and the rustling nylon bag that somehow escaped from there ... so is no wonder ...

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... that this seagull looks like an integral part ...

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... of the stony World War 2 memorial on which he's standing on.

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The shifting impressionist visions reflected in the water ...

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... can be seen in a different version up in the sky, painted in a more stiff manner ...

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... sometimes framed by floral decorations ... like this one, made of winding branches of the wild rose. Meanwhile ...

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... on the opposite horizon the colors are more subdued.

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And so ... I'm standing here ... among the fishermen's tool sheds ...

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... and small boats ... some of them are floating in the shallows ...

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... this one was recently pulled out of the sea ...

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... many were stranded long ago ...

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... and are now filled with garbage and a thin layer of stagnant rainwater that fell from the sky a month ago.

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The light is changing ... growing in intensity ...

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... but losing the strength of its early artistic impact ...

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... while the sun is rising ... greeted by this left slipper who has lost its right companion ...

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... a wandering sea bottle ...

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... and glittering minerals scattered among ordinary coastal limestone.

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The sunlight is passing through the empty beach bar ...

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... which is closed for now ... but it looks almost open, very clean and ready for costumers ... who will arrive around noon, I guess.

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The seagulls are patrolling the lawn ...

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... in search for something edible.

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They look very elegant ...

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... and walk around in a pretty dignified manner.

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This juvenile one ... is sniffing around some garbage ...

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... in the shallow water ...

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... near some stranded boat.

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Another boat is on its way to the deeper side of the bay ...

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... a feather is stuck in the grass ... and I'm ready to go home ... to eat something after this idle morning walk ... that didn't require much effort & energy ... but still got me hungry.

CHAPTER TWO - AROUND NOON

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I'm back ... in the port again ... under the bright blue sky ... and some lovely fast - shifting clouds that look like they are about to form some letters.

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Down on the ground ... or more precisely ...

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... in the shallow water underneath the sky ... the little egret is dancing.

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I mean, it looks like a dance and non - verbal theatrical performance ...

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... but this bird is actually hunting ... ant here, the egret has caught some very small fish.

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It's pretty hot at this time of the day ...

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... but there is also humidity in the heavy - to - breathe air ...

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... so a small fragment of rainbow appeared above the pines.

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Meanwhile, the egret is walking through the shallows ...

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... in search of another meal.

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She's using her leg and feet to stir the mud and uncover various invertebrates and simultaneously attract small fish that come to find edible particles in that underwater cloud ... I mean, I think that the part about attracting fish is true because I see fish coming around my hand when I do so in the mud when snorkeling ... so I connected the two things and you have to know that I could be wrong ... I didn't find this as some proven fact in zoological literature ... it could be :) or not to be so.

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The only irrefutable fact is that the egret is mixing the mud, using her leg as some long spoon.

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The partial rainbow was still in the sky ...

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... above this well designed boat ...

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... when the egret got seriously focused on something under the surface ... changing visibly her posture and plumage ... ant then ... a moment later ...

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... she caught another fish.

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While the bird was swallowing her prey ... I decided to go further along the coast, to my favorite snorkeling area and spend the rest of the hot sunny afternoon in the sea.

CHAPTER THREE - EVENING

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I'll be home soon ... but right now ...

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... I'm back in the bay ...

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... in the port of Liznjan ...

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... sitting on the dock ...

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... watching a man paddle - boarding to the shore ...

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... with a sailboat on its tail ...

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... while the night is slowly chasing us all. It's a silent, snail - paced action scene ... like something out of the surreal, artsy version of a James Bond movie.

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The sea is very calm ...

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... small motorboats are driving in and out of the bay ...

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... living temporary scars on that shiny surface.

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To add another slightly surreal touch to the situation ...

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... someone is walking the dog ...

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... in a pretty peculiar way :D

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I didn't expect to catch this cool little scene ...

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... when I zoomed on this distant yellow pedalo ...

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... from the top of the Baywatch tower.

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The night is almost here ...

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... it's time to go home.

EPILOGUE

Once home, I transferred these images into the PC ... and forgot about them ... because when I was collecting them with my camera, I had no idea about where and when will I use them ... it was a casual, unplanned shooting, just to do something while wandering aimlessly around ... only yesterday, while working on some other old material for the Saturday Memories post, I stumbled upon these photographs ... and noticed the potential for a three-chapter story about my summer ramblings.

And that's it ... my first three - chapter post is here ... as always in these ramblings on HIVE, the photographs are my work ... THE END

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