I forgot, Grimsta, Shetland, Scotland

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Shetland 2007

(I forgot, Grimsta, Shetland, Scotland, 2007)

I forgot how good it was to be alive

With the wrens and the finches twittering in the cliffs above that I had just scrambled down from crumbly ledge to sharp little handholds

A flotilla of diving cormorants floats past me

Sitting on a 100 ton boulder

As the next giant waves breaks feet away

A wave that could crush or grind me to paste

It disappears under my boulder shaking it and drenching me in spray

Now I am alive.

Nikon D2X, 1/4s @ f/16

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