Wednesday, June 05, 2024

Let's skim the sand

Watch my six, please
Port Stanley, ON
September 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram


It takes immense courage to fly so close to the ground that the slightest shift in the wind or miscalculation will piledrive you into the terrain.

Birds are built for the task, every fibre of their being optimized for life in the sky. And even when that sky happens to be inches above potentially instantaneous disaster, still, they fly.

As you’ve probably guessed, I don’t fly unless I’m buying a ticket for a window seat on the red-eye. Which likely explains why I’m in such awe of any being that can leave the Earth for a bit under its own power.

We’re different. And that’s what makes us so compelling to each other.

I originally thought this photo was about birds and flight and the stupid things I do with a camera when I go to the beach. Now I’m not so sure.

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Related:
Dirty bird, April 2019
I need more cowbell, January 2014
Low-level flight, February 2006
Liftoff, September 2005

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