Learning is a process of ups and downs that is littered with plateaus.

Three days of chasing the light on Cape Cod beaches and tidal flats has pushed me off of a plateau to a new way of seeing.  Before attending Ron Wilson’s Landscape photography workshop, I was being driven nuts by a picture that I knew was sitting in the empty lot at the top of my street, but I couldn’t figure out how to make it work in the two dimensions of the photo.  Now I know the answer….  and so much more. 

It will take practice to put into use what I learned, but how wonderful to have this new visual language.  If only all of my education had been this satisfying….

Nauset Beach an hour before sunrise

Zig zagging in the tidal marsh

Copper glinting tidal swirls