Friday, September 6, 2013

BACK IN SURF CITY

We have been back at the New Jersey shore for almost a month, but my camera has been sitting on the sidelines due to blood clots in my left leg and a second cataract surgery.  Now I can see whites as a true bright white, not the yellow beige they have been for a while.  What a difference!!

And we had a beach visitor just before Labor Day -

This Harbor Seal had come ashore deciding it was timr for some R&R I guess and watch the goings on at the beach.
He seemed well fed, uninjured and totally relaxed, so I approached slowly to snap some shots of him.

He watched me carefully for a while, but seeing no threat, I guess, proceeded to put on a small show,

Which I guess he found exhausting for such a big guy.

Rested, he renewed his antics with greater vigor, to my amusement - a real showman!

As I left he looked very pleased with himself - as he should have been.  His audience of one, was!!

2 comments:

Pete F. said...

I'm writing about a photograph you took that was used for November in the 2013 Down the Shore calendar. This is one of the most beautiful beach pictures I've ever seen. It could be an oil painting. The rocks in the picture look familiar. Could they be part of the jetty (now far beneath recently pumped Sandy sand) located in the area of 34th Street in Brandt Beach? Congratulations on creating this photograph!

Pete Forsythe
Detroit

Pete F. said...

I'm writing about a photograph you took that was used for November in the 2013 Down the Shore calendar. This is one of the most beautiful beach pictures I've ever seen. It could be an oil painting. The rocks in the picture look familiar. Could they be part of the jetty (now far beneath recently pumped Sandy sand) located in the area of 34th Street in Brandt Beach? Congratulations on creating this photograph!

Pete Forsythe
Detroit