5th & 6th of August 2015

The photographs that you'll see in this post were taken during two hot summer days in 2015.

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The moon was full on the 5th of August 2015. I watched it from the place called Marlera, a stretch of coastline about five or six kilometers from Medulin, the town in which I live. Half an hour earlier, in the same area ...

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... I was enjoying the sunset. The same day, but much earlier, it must have been around noon or late in the morning ...

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... I photographed a friend, a cat, and a dog that were chilling on the bench in front of my house.

Here you can see the zucchini flowers I picked early in the morning. I don't remember why, but the fruits that year, weren't growing well. The flowers were falling too soon. Before the zucchini could be developed. So I fried the flowers for breakfast that day. An hour or two later ...

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... I took a bunch of selfies in the bathroom mirror.

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That selfie session started with shaving. In those years, I often had fun making silly selfies after shaving my head.

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After taking the self-portraits, the fun usually continued on Facebook, where many friends were commenting, and I was laughing and responding.

At some point, exhausted by posing & photographing, I spent some time meditating on my life, endeavors, and the universe in general. It was in those ethereal meditative moments above the toilet Bowl that I decided to spend an hour or two, maybe three, on the beaches of Marlera. And I did it ...

... but only at the end of that long summer day.

As you can see in these muddled, grainy shots taken with an old & not very good compact camera ...

... the evening by the sea was really beautiful ...

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... and, like the cherry on the cake, the full moon was mounted above the silhouettes of shrubs and trees.

It was pretty dark when a group of quad bikes passed me by raising plenty of dust.

The next day, I visited Marlera again.

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I spent the whole afternoon there.

The dust shown in this photograph was raised by another group of quad bikes.

I did a bit of outdoor meditation on that occasion. I mean, just like in the case of the previous toilet bowl spirituality, I was just posing in front of my camera, simulating a meditation. I get in meditation mode only when I observe and photograph the plants and creatures through the macro lens.

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Later, in the evening, always in Marlera, I photographed another sunset.

Here you can see a bit of the dried-out vegetation from the coastal meadow photographed immediately after the sunset.

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On the 6th of August 2015, early in the morning, I ate half jar of homemade elderberry jam for breakfast.

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AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS HERE ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK.