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Monday June 1, 2026 |
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went out early to
timelapse the ebb flow for 40-minute long music
video i'm making for a friend's band. it's a concept album that opens with the line, the tide goes out, the table is set--a coast salish saying sarah quoted in this mural a year before we ever imagined we'd end up a literal stone's throw from an epic tideflat (but it's a longer walk than that because by foot it's not a straight shot). the oysters revealed by receding water glinted like jewels in the low morning sun. as i gawped slackjawed, a neighbor came out to tell me orcas had been sighted just a few miles off. because my iphone was occupied filming, i had to hasten home in person to alert sarah; also grabbed the 200mm canon inherited from darrell, a professional tv cameraman and avid wildlife photographer whose spirit lingers in the long lens he used to look through. i channeled his energy, positioned aluminum tube tripod and pointed the camera in their general direction, spotting through binoculars, blind finger on the button... they were more than a mile away but we could see them breaking in unison, hitching a ride on the outgoing tide ... .. . |
