
The sea spoke of you. Its voice, usually thundering and loud, lowered to a rhythmic whisper. I listened as the fog hugged the sand and the birds scurried in search of scuttling breakfast. I listened as my heart hurt for the world and my beautiful baby girl turned 17. I listened as your pain became mine and my pain became yours. I listened and listened as my body felt it all, as my heart broke and repaired itself again and again and again. I listened. The sea spoke of you.
“To the ocean I offered a seed
and its body dissolved it
like time, composing
a life.” —Howard Altmann















We are at Dillion Beach (yes, again) celebrating my daughter’s 17th birthday. I’m amazed I can still find things to delight my camera and I hope you are too. Please let me know if you have a favorite. As usual, these were taken with my Olympus OM-D and edited with ON1 Photo RAW.
Nice collection Bridgette!
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I’m so glad you liked these. Thank you!
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Happy Happy Happy Birthday to your daughter!
The photos are lovely!
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Thank you! I can’t believe my baby is 17. It’s wild being a parent.
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You’re most welcome! I can only imagine. ❤️💙💜
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Something about that tree in 7 tugs at me.
Nice atmosphere and send a happy birthday from me to the kiddo.
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I’m also quite taken by #8. Just saying.
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You’d have loved the fog rolling across the sand. It was beautiful.
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I love a twisty tree and thank you for the birthday wishes. She had a great day playing her guitar beside the ocean.
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Twisty trees are the bestest. 😊
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Happy Birthday to your daughter! 😊 I like each photo for it’s unique look, the bent tree is so amazing! ❤️
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Thank you so much, John. My daughter had a lovely day and I’m glad you love that bent tree. It’s one of my favorites.
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You’re welcome, Bridgette. 😊
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Just so beautiful. Happy birthday to your beautiful daughter. Congrats to you too—for the blessing a daughter is. 🤗
Loved all the photos. They all spoke to me. 👏🏽
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Thank you for the birthday wishes for my daughter. I was lucky enough to have my son and his girlfriend on this trip too. To see our children love others and be out in the world is such a wonderful blessing. Glad you liked the photos too. I’m amazed I can always find something new to see.
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Beautiful world we live in. And you have a beautiful mind. Thats why you “find” beauty.
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What a kind thing to say! Thank you.
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Numbers 3, 7 and 12. I’m a sucker for pattern.
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Same! Patterns in nature are everywhere and always are my favorite.
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I forgot to add number 15!
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I don’t see many bees at the beach, but this guy was just doing his thing along the trail back to the house. I was so happy to capture it.
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Happy birthday to your baby girl! 🎂 Gorgeous photos! 👏🏻
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Thank you so much, Michele! She’s really a treasure and I’m so lucky to have her.
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You’re very welcome, Bridgette. Children are the greatest gift. 💕
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I love the grey ghostly gull and the question mark branch :_)
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Thanks! The grey gulls are my favorite too and I adore when a tree is bent by the wind. It’s a poem just waiting to be written.
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you’re up to it, Brigitte 🙂
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I like the ocean shots, and love the bee.
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Thank you so much, Rebecca. I stumbled upon that little bee and was so happy I did. He put on a little dance for me.
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Stunning display, Bridgette! I really love the 1st one. Very special.
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Thank you! That was the first shot I took on this trip and it remains one of my favorites. There was something so poetic about those flowers reaching up out of the ground cover that really spoke to me.
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Happy birthday to your daughter!
What a great photography.
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Thank you! It was a wonderful day.
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Happy birthday to your daughter!
I love your photography. Every single picture is unique and choosing one is very difficult because I loved them all.
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You are so kind, Narisa! I’m so glad you love my photography. That means the world to me. I’ll pass on the birthday wishes to my daughter.
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#2 that bird is sassy.
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Sassy birds are my favorite.
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I love the pink Thrift, a favourite plant of mine! Great photos. 🤗🙋♂️
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Thank you so much, Ashley!
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Happy birthday to your daughter!
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Thank you so very much, Greg!
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Some wonderful moody photos here – love the bright colour contrasts in 1, 3 6 and 15. 🙂 Hope you both had a lovely birthday celebration together & great snapshots! ❤
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Thank you so much, Tom! It was a wonderful birthday celebration. It’s so strange that my “baby” is 17. Life is wild.
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I love that you can find new things to delight you. Foggy days are very inspirational I think. Happy belated birthday to your daughter.
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Thank you! Yes, I don’t usually photograph the fog but there’s great beauty to be found in every moment.
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Melancholy feel to the words and fascinating photos, Bridgette! 💞💞💞 I’d say #13 is my favorite, but I also love the otherworldly feel to #7.
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I’m so glad you liked these. Yes, I’ve been feeling a bit on the melancholic side lately. Hoping things change soon 🙂
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I hope so too, for your sake! 💞
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I like #s 5 and 14 especially.
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So glad you like those. That bird was giving me quite a stare down.
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Seagulls have attitudes.
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#10 scuttling breakfast 🙂
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Exactly! I love watching the birds.
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Great collection! I really liked 1, 2, and 6. (And I have to give 9 an honorable mention)
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Thank you so much, Nicole. I’m so glad you enjoyed these. I just went beach camping and will be posting more ocean photos later this week.
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