A walk on the beach for a photographer is a special nature journey. You have the play of sunlight, water, wind and space surrounding you. While walking you can capture all the different essences of the elements — Fire, Air, Water, Earth and Sky — amidst wind-sculpted dunes, textured sand,
steadfast sea grass, and a roaring ocean buoying seabirds, driftwood, surfers, and sea-faring human possessions from far flung places.
This selection of photographs from a collection of 25 b/w photographs from my vintage photo archive represents a wonder-filled experience of sensations along a stretch of shoreline of the small barrier island of Long Beach, N.Y. on an Indian Summer October day in 1999.
Taking this beach walk to breathe in the solace, sanity and serenity from dawn to dusk with a full moon above was an hour’s daytrip from the concrete jungle wilds of Manhattan.
FAVORITE PHOTO — “Boardwalk – Summer’s End” has sand, pebbles, fallen wild rose petals, tree twigs all snuggled together in a small space on a man made boardwalk as if they were seeking mutual protection at the season’s end signaling the sting of blustery autumn in their life cycle.
