Gannets are enormous and sleek creamy-white seabirds, with black wingtips, yellow heads and necks, and startlingly outlined eyes. They nest on the rocky cliffs of the European and North American coasts of the North Atlantic and, once grown, spend their days sailing across the ocean. The acrobatics by which they make their living ~ steep climbs into the air and speedy plunges straight into the sea ~ are rivaled only by those of pelicans.
What better metaphor for a sweeping search of one's life choices and opportunities than a gannet extended above the waves, a regal and yet restless surveyor of the vast ocean surface? The gannet reminds us that life is an adventure in both beauty and profound unease, and that the sea itself is limitless in its textures and possibilities.
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Beautiful - please tell me you didn't enhance the colors.
Oh that's total Photoshop playtime -- you can tell for sure when you enlarge it that it's "posterize" or somesuch. But it's so fun!
Beautiful colors, doctored or not! Stacy
This one will now replace the previous landscape that is currently my desktop. I don't know how you do it; one is more beautiful than the next.
God's colors not good enough? Sorry, smarmy mood today.
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