Zawn

by morpheus71

Winter surf cascading through a canyon into a zawn within Renny Reef. It was most mesmerising to see the ever changing patterns with each swoosh of an incoming wave. Most times there was a small whitewater stream, then periodically the waters would run higher and with a mighty boom a tapestry of flow lines would envelope the ledge.

Deep time of ancient rocks - carved slowly since the Variscan Orogeny, set against ever evolving moments of time & tide on a winter's morning.

These rocks are at Heybrook Bay, which is in the South Devon A.O.N.B.
Uploaded07/12/2015 - 19:27
CategoryLandscape / Travel
Shutter Speed1/2
Aperturef/19
LensN/A
ISO200
Focal Length42.5mm

Wildwood512
Posted 07/12/2015 - 20:33 Link
A fluidity dance! Delightful water play as it interacts gleefully over embedded rock formations with surges of intermittent rushes! Mesmerizing, relaxing, cleansing !
Enjoyed reading your description as well!
Cheers...Donna 😊
Posted 07/12/2015 - 20:53 Link
Very beautiful... lovely energy flow through the picture, restrained desaturated colour palette, and super detail in the strands of water... very tricky and much diligence required to get a result this good... congrats..

Best
morpheus71
Posted 07/12/2015 - 21:34 Link
Wildwood512 wrote:
A fluidity dance! Delightful water play as it interacts gleefully over embedded rock formations with surges of intermittent rushes! Mesmerizing, relaxing, cleansing !
Enjoyed reading your description as well!

Many Thanks for your eloquent wordsmithery! I feel an affinity with water - connections with the rivers, lakes and oceans whilst wild swimming, canoeing, kayaking, surfing and canyoning have given me such pleasure. The ever changing patterns and play of light upon the waters, the flow, the ensconcing sensation of immersion... each becomes a mindful encounter. I am so grateful to be surrounded by such bountiful waters in South West England.
morpheus71
Posted 07/12/2015 - 21:38 Link
thingsthatihaveseen wrote:
Very beautiful... lovely energy flow through the picture, restrained desaturated colour palette, and super detail in the strands of water... very tricky and much diligence required to get a result this good... congrats..

Best

Thanks very much Bill It was a joy to watch, to hear the music of the waters evolve on each surge, to anticipate the moment to press the timer to distill the energy into a photograph. My whitewater river studies have helped in having a hunch with ocean cascades I think!
davidwozhere
Posted 08/12/2015 - 00:33 Link
Amazing how poetic visual imagery draws forth a torrent of verbal poetry too - I shall upset it. What is a Zawn please?
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GIULIO57
Posted 08/12/2015 - 07:18 Link
PPG
alfpics
Posted 08/12/2015 - 08:33 Link
This beautiful!
Andy
davidtrout
Posted 08/12/2015 - 10:29 Link
Absolutely wonderful and I agree totally with all the eloquent praise from the other posters. I always enjoy your descriptions and quotations almost as much your pictures Phil. I wish more people were as generous in describing the where, what and when of their images.
David
autumnlight
Posted 08/12/2015 - 14:34 Link
Couldn't agree more with the comments above a mesmerizing image!
morpheus71
Posted 08/12/2015 - 16:35 Link
davidwozhere wrote:
Amazing how poetic visual imagery draws forth a torrent of verbal poetry too - I shall upset it. What is a Zawn please?

It's an old Brythonic lexicon, often used in the South West of England in particular:

n. A deep and narrow sea-inlet in the British Isles, especially Cornwall and the south-west, cut by erosion into sea-cliffs, and with steep or vertical side-walls

morpheus71
Posted 08/12/2015 - 16:36 Link
GIULIO57 wrote:

Cheers Giulio 😊
morpheus71
Posted 08/12/2015 - 16:36 Link
alfpics wrote:
This beautiful!

Many thanks Andy 😊
morpheus71
Posted 08/12/2015 - 16:40 Link
davidtrout wrote:
Absolutely wonderful and I agree totally with all the eloquent praise from the other posters. I always enjoy your descriptions and quotations almost as much your pictures Phil. I wish more people were as generous in describing the where, what and when of their images.
David

Many thanks for your generous and encouraging comments David 😊 It's a great place to gaze upon the ocean and it's tidal antics, there's some fascinating wave worn pinnacles in the cove too. A place with a primordial ambience in the pre-dawn, evening afterglow and twilight at low to mid-tide.
morpheus71
Posted 08/12/2015 - 16:44 Link
autumnlight wrote:
Couldn't agree more with the comments above a mesmerizing image!

Many thanks Maria😊
davidwozhere
Posted 08/12/2015 - 23:51 Link
Well, that one did wonders for our vocabularies and use of English, as well as allowing us to appreciate some very nicely photographed detail
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morpheus71
Posted 09/12/2015 - 00:37 Link
davidwozhere wrote:
Well, that one did wonders for our vocabularies and use of English, as well as allowing us to appreciate some very nicely photographed detail

Many thanks indeed 😊 it's been great to have such fine vocabulary shared with my photography 😊

I highly recommend Robert McFarlane's 'Wild Places'; 'Mountains of the mind' for his reverent of landscapes and eloquence. His book 'Landmarks' too for it's inclusion of wonderful disappearing lexicons about land and weather. Nan Shepherd's 'The Living Mountain' is just the most beautifully written book on the landscape possibly ever.

These four books resonate long after the final pages are turned and are a huge inspiration to my approach to making landscape photographs.
pauljay
Posted 09/12/2015 - 07:41 Link
Timing was, no doubt, of the essence here! I got the word 'zawn' out of it too!
Paul.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! (Bill Brandt)
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morpheus71
Posted 09/12/2015 - 12:38 Link
pauljay wrote:
Timing was, no doubt, of the essence here! I got the word 'zawn' out of it too!

I watched a couple of occasions of the water pouring over the ledge and estimated the wave period, the drainage time and factored in the 2 second timer on the camera then did some maths...

This first and only attempt of capturing the ledge cascade worked out pleasingly 😊

A background in Physics and Maths helped here😊
Teaka53
Posted 10/12/2015 - 20:31 Link
Fabulous capture, love the patterns in the milky water
Malc

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