Maui: More Mere Details, Part Four (April, May 2021)
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Some details underfoot along the beaches are necessarily granular, shaped by grains of sand. A thin skim of water remains as each ebbing wave recedes to the water line and sinks into the porous beach. This skim washes over sand grains, forming tiny dynamic patterns, little-Vs, as it flows past obstructing grains, miniature boulders resisting its return to the ocean.
The froth of the arriving wave on a calm day rolls over the skim left by the preceding wave. Sand grains briefly etch the skim and deflect its smooth flow in the band of beach subjected to constant cycles of arrival and departure.
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The skim changes constantly, wrinkled and pickled one moment,
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then becoming a mirror reflecting the sun and revealing tiny currents and eddies
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before the next wave arrives. Voids in its froth frame views of miniature turmoil as the water flows over the sand, as seen in the detail image.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.