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The Freedom to Live


The Freedom to Live
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Copyright: John David (johnnymag) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 95 W: 18 N: 465] (2357)
Genre: Places
Medium: Black & White
Date Taken: 2005-06-17
Categories: Mood
Camera: NikonD70
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/1250 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-01-11 16:45
Viewed: 672
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight

How to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating.

For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds.

Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent
whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides,

experimenting.

Extract:Jonathan Livinston Seagull. Richard Bach.

My first experiment with monochrome. I was touched at an early age by Bach's narrative and having been brought up on the Northumbrian Coast, spent hours marvelling at the flying skills of seagulls. Bach teaches us a great deal about ourselves. Hope you feel the same way as I do.
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Hello John,

Thanks very much for sharing such a touching photograph and notes. Your photograph speaks the joy of being free. I love all the light refractions and the incoming wave. Beautiful John!

Peace and Love to you always!
Kevin

  • Great 
  • Mitra Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1254 W: 75 N: 902] (7908)
  • [2006-01-12 3:50]

Well done.
Mitra

  • Great 
  • SkyF Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1666 W: 136 N: 1263] (6138)
  • [2006-01-28 12:22]
  • [+]

Great composition, the light creates a wonderful mood. You added notes that compliment the pictures ...a very nice presentation. Wonderful coice in frame, something I have to work on.
Regards...SkyF

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