Late afternoon is the best time for an entertaining cinematic display of shadows and reflections on the beach as long as it is not too cloud or rainy of course. I am always hopeful for any new and creative photo opportunities that might pop up. I try not to be repetitious and boring because same same photos are definitely turn offs.
Anyway, here I am walking along yesterday on Wednesday, thinking of the ever Mr Nice guy @tattooday's tag #Wednesdaywalk when I turned into a shadow hunter and a bird watcher in two seconds flat, as in front of me I saw a seagull happily walking along casting this shadow on the wet sand.
And then this longer oblong shadow.
Wanting a bit of fun I decided to play around with this seagull solely to create action shadows. I was extra happy with this shot when the startled bird flapped its wings casting a great shadow and a little reflection.
Then the bird cast this reflection and shadow as it tried to get a distance away from a playful walker. I suspect it just wanted to be rid of me.
Only to settle back to walk in the water. The reflection gave a nice ripply effect.
Here is a shot that turned out fuzzy and out of focus and really should be deleted. But I am sharing as I see a piece of art, a wet misty painting of a seagull hanging on a wall.
It turned out to be a sweet mixed lolly bag of a walk for me yesterday with @tattoodjay's #Wednedaywalk, @melinda010100's #featheredfriends and #shadowhunters, and @annaphilbrick's fantastic reflections creation. Playing with the seagulls was indeed a fun treat.
But am also aware of that that a whole village makes every community run smoothly making it easy for little bloggers like me to publish posts to share on Hive. Always appreciative of the work behind the scenes.
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