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People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We’ve learned to use digital technology—laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet—as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we’re at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
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Yes, I am a child of the sixties. Make of that what you will 😉
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Heck, I made it into my twenties before getting midway into the sixties…. and I’m not at all pleased at bumping up against some of the limits that imposes!
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A beautiful image, I can really feel the might of the ocean in those long, crushing waves.
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Thank you very much for the lovely compliment. It seems that since I love shooting pictures at a nearby beach, waves have become a bit of a specialty. If you pull up “waves” under the category menu, I think there are some even more powerful examples. At least I think so. 🙂
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Beautiful, love this shimmering light!
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I think it’s likely pretty obvious that I’m in love with the waves and the surf.
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Those waves don’t give a good coddamn about the digital age and they’re doing just fine…doing admirable well, actually, for amateurs…..and they make a beautiful portrait, too, I might add….. 🙂
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You certainly may add…. and I agree. Perhaps that bit about not giving “a good coddamn” is why I like them so…..?
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It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s why…. 😉
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I love the placement of the rock Gunta. Beautiful!
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I rather liked it, too. Pity I can’t take credit for putting it there. 😀
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Nice capture.
Have a nice day Gunta,
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Thank you, sweet Isabel. Hope you have a lovely day as well!
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A very different view of the ocean, Gunta. That big black rock looks like a dog lying down in the water. 🙂
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To me, it looks like a buffalo. It’s definitely not Sissy! 🙂
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Interesting angle, and how it changes the emotion of the view.
More of a spectator when seen from the side, a feeling of less partial visitor. Front on a landscape feels more conspiritorial.
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Funny thing is that I’m still trying to remember how I managed that shot from the side without getting wet. 😀 I tend to be pretty zoned out when shooting and often come back with surprises… 😉
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I love your photo. I’m glad I grew up before the internet. I had freedom outdoors without being connected by cell phone etc 🙂
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Thank you.
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Simple, yet enchanting! I can’t explain why that one draws me in, but it does.
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I’m still trying to remember how I managed that angle without getting wet! 😀
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If I sit very quietly I believe I can hear the crashing of those waves. 🙂 As for your quote, I think I may fall into the fumbling amateur category.
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You are most distinctly past the amateur stage…. you blog, therefore you are beyond the fumble. 😀
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Ok, just barely. 🙂
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I wish my mother was still around. She would have loved the internet …
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But think beyond us… what marvels are likely to come along. 🙂
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Being born in the early eighties I could perfectly relate to the quote here 🙂
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It fits even better when born in the forties. 😀
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Relatively calm and glistening ones!
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Yes, and never the same….
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