In today’s OBX installment, I present 1 impressionistic seascape, 1 saltwater fly fisherman, 2 squabbling ibises, 1 seashell vignette, and 1 red-winged blackbird.
OBX is the ubiquitous call sign for the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where all of these photos were taken.
“The world is the world, regardless of where you stand.”
Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.
“The world is the world, regardless of where you stand.”
Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.
“The ocean ends, like life and vision, at a horizon that is the fault of the curvature of eye and earth, with no proof of true end at all. The ocean seems indefinite. It presents the eye with a line that is an illusion. We linger on its shores, or live on its surfaces, but never have a means of encompassing the whole.”
Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.
“The ocean ends, like life and vision, at a horizon that is the fault of the curvature of eye and earth, with no proof of true end at all. The ocean seems indefinite. It presents the eye with a line that is an illusion. We linger on its shores, or live on its surfaces, but never have a means of encompassing the whole.”
Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.
“Such is the music of the loom: the water pushed up onto the strand, and the water drawn back into the ocean."
Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.
“Such is the music of the loom: the water pushed up onto the strand, and the water drawn back into the ocean."
Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.
“The ocean, for all who feel compelled to gaze into it, shows in each reflected face the single stitch each individual life adds into all lives, those individual fates of which the fated have no sight except themselves, except their eyes staring back into their eyes, and so promising us we exist.”
Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.
“The ocean, for all who feel compelled to gaze into it, shows in each reflected face the single stitch each individual life adds into all lives, those individual fates of which the fated have no sight except themselves, except their eyes staring back into their eyes, and so promising us we exist.”
Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.
“All people are impelled to gaze out at the ocean. Ishmael claims a narcissistic urge guides us all unconsciously to the sea. In the reflection of our face on water we seem to see the vast secret of our own lives."
Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.
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