I've always loved the patterns created by the light on the beaches and dunes of Cape Cod. As my skills improve I'm better able to "capture" that which captivates me. This was taken just before sunset at Mayflower beach, also the site of some of my other challenge entries.
I'm beginning to experiment with adjusting the color channels when converting to black and white/ duotone.
When Robert (Bear_Music) saw this picture he spontaneously began to quote this poem by Archibald MacLeish, from whence my title ..
You, Andrew Marvell
And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth’s noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night:
To feel creep up the curving east
The earthy chill of dusk and slow
Upon those under lands the vast
And ever climbing shadow grow
And strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the evening strange
The flooding dark about their knees
The mountains over Persia change
And now at Kermanshah the gate
Dark empty and the withered grass
And through the twilight now the late
Few travelers in the westward pass
And Baghdad darken and the bridge
Across the silent river gone
And through Arabia the edge
Of evening widen and steal on
And deepen on Palmyra’s street
The wheel rut in the ruined stone
And Lebanon fade out and Crete
High through the clouds and overblown
And over Sicily the air
Still flashing with the landward gulls
And loom and slowly disappear
The sails above the shadowy hulls
And Spain go under and the shore
Of Africa the gilded sand
And evening vanish and no more
The low pale light across that land
Nor now the long light on the sea:
And here face downward in the sun
To feel how swift how secretly
The shadow of the night comes on ...
A blue ribbon and a new personal best. I am really chuffed! Thanks for all the great comments and thanks to Bear_music for reminding me "it's all about the light!"
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Now we're talkin!!! This is just beautiful and you've done an excellent job with everything. Congrats on your blue for this shot. Going to have to fave this one.
Ahhh a head to head competition with The Bear and you kicked his butt all over the place. I still doubt it'll quiet him down any....heheheheh. Cheers to you!
Hi Steve. For the record, Robert has been a personal one man cheering section the last few days as it become clear my score was going to remain over 7 the whole way.. I've had to "tolerate" his chant of "Penny's going to ribbon .... " which wasn't too hard a sound to hear. :-)
Ahhh a head to head competition with The Bear and you kicked his butt all over the place. I still doubt it'll quiet him down any....heheheheh. Cheers to you!
"Picture perfect" just got a whole new meaning. This is absolutely stunning and I'm thrilled to see several images with artistic quality on the front page. Congrats Penny!
i am not a fan of such photos entered in challenge where I have to scroll down to see the full photo (mainly because it is 800pxls to all sides). It just doesn't allow me to see the photograph as a whole, and makes screening difficult.
nice texture in the photo, details preserved. Nice attempt.
"...the low pale light across that land..." 
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