Zawn

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!

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

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.

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!

Amazing how poetic visual imagery draws forth a torrent of verbal poetry too - I shall upset it. What is a Zawn please?

This beautiful!

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

Couldn't agree more with the comments above a mesmerizing image!

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

Cheers Giulio 😊

Many thanks Andy 😊

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.

Many thanks Maria😊

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.

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😊

Fabulous capture, love the patterns in the milky water