Just before dawn on a New Zealand east coast beach…
Seagulls perform their usual harsh wake up call. They are few and far between this morning so are drowned out by the hissing of wave over sandy beach shingle…
Its early February but there’s a cool breeze easing in off the Pacific, nothing a warm jacket, and a warm cup of coffee can’t stave off however.
Its the second location for the morning, 3rd composition, taken with the 2nd coffee of the day. The 1st drink was somewhere between 3 or 4am as I navigated my way out of Christchurch’s suburban sprawl and the 2nd as I cruised this coastal towns main highway looking for another caffeine hit to sustain me through the morning.
I’ve already taken an image or two of this location but as the waves sweep up the beach my eye is drawn to the movement up, across and back down the beach each time. A cycle any regular beach traveller can vouch for as hypnotic…
The clinical photographer part of my brain laments the lack of clouds on the horizon to give more drama to the image, to be lit up by the sun’s 1st beams.
But the creative part revels in the motion, the blurred lines between water and shingle and the soundscape punctuated by the click of my cameras shutter…..
It’s a good morning..
