Walk #4 Cocooned vs Engaged

Listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgP5Q9vZal8

I took the following with my IPhone

Trestles.

I pressed play.

Jonsi- Indian Summer

I walk this trail a lot. It's one of my favorite places, if not my favorite place to surf. However, this spot is ridden with people, its an extremely popular place to surf. The waves are great and the walk down puts you into another world. Much of it is unchanged from even 40 years ago when people first started surfing the break.

While I listened to my song, it was hard for me not meditate. I really blocked much of everything out. A small lizard even hit my foot as I turned the corner, I was really in my own world. The terrible thing is that I usually like to do this. Plug in the music, zone out and watch the world. Whenever I'm photographing by myself I tend to listen to music. When I was in Europe last summer its half of what I did.

The world looks different. Physical colors begin start conversation with the music. I find a strong connection to color and tonality, music tonality that is. Greens and blues generally put me in a meditative state. I guess that's why I find a lot, and why a lot of other people, fine solace in the ocean.

Jonsi is an Icelandic artist and is inspired by the Grandeur of Iceland. It translates. I begin to look up. I see the open air and the ground that is dwarfed by it. I'm reminded of my brother in New York. The skyscrapers, the lack of natural grandeur. The steel. The smelly smell. Though it is not the golden hour. My music puts a strong filter to the mid day sun. My eyes see what my brain feels. Blue, Green, Brown with the filter of a warm Van Gogh yellow.