Thread by @joelsax47

I slept for fourteen or fifteen hours today after sleeping six the night before. Sleep is one of the most important things when you live with #bipolardisorder -- too much and you sink into a depression. Too little and...

...you are the obnoxious life of the party. So my body fought off the mania by blasting me with an excessive night stupor. It made it hard to engage for very long with people on my online bipolar support group. Perhaps it was for the best given that I was such dismal company.

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The water was a powerful blue when we walked around the slough at Bolsa Chica. I mean it was the most intense blue. You rarely see blue as blue as it was that day. The bluest blue you could see.

Sorry for the Trump impression.

The best part of the walk was, for me, when we stopped to watch a flock of Caspian terns diving for dinner behind a dam. Terns will hover in place, looking downward for a fish, then diving with a hard splash and seamlessly...

...flying away from the strike point with some brackish water species that thought it had found a safe abode from predators like sharks only to find that the greatest death stroke came from above. To capture this moment of triumph...

...I set my cameras to multiple shots and took a string of photos as I saw a tern begin its dive. The result needed a bit of cropping:

#photograph #photography #bird #seabird #tern #cropping #fishing
Joel Sax shared a #photo with you from the #Flickr app! Check it out:
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More pictures from the Sunday at Bolsa are coming. Then some experimental photos and the San Joaquin Marsh. From salt water to fresh or, rather, brackish to less brackish?

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