3 Sixty 5 Photography: 072 The Pacific.
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.” -Christopher Paolini
3 Sixty 5 Photography: 065 San Pedro.
“Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster- tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?…It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.” – Herman Melville
11.26.14 West Coast.
“Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.” – Herman Melville
11.25.14 Julie. West Coast.
“I must be a mermaid…I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” – Anaïs Nin
I love how the lines in the shot came out.
Julie. Hearst Pier. CA. 2011. Sprocket Rocket 1336.
Julie and the Golden Gate Bridge. SF. Sprocket Rocket 1273.
Derek Woods Photography 