"And I in deep delight am chiefly drown'd ..."

If music and sweet poetry agree,

    As they must needs, the sister and the brother,

Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me,

    Because thou lovest the one, and I the other.

Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch

    Upon the lute doth ravish human sense;

Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such

    As, passing all conceit, needs no defence.

Thou lovest to hear the sweet melodious sound

    That Phoebus' lute, the queen of music, makes;

And I in deep delight am chiefly drown'd

    When as himself to singing he betakes.

      One god is god of both, as poets feign;

      One knight loves both, and both in thee remain.

~ William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, VIII

(Yeah, I know, it really doesn't deal with marine invertebrates, though it does involve spellbound humans, and speak to love uniting two very different beings. And I like ol' Will's Elizabethan pick-up lines.)

His love is whole new world to me

I saw what life can really be

Its been suspence all up till now...

I am so glad that him I found!

 

Don, I am sure you won't mind me posting these here... :) You started it! I only grasp my moment to slip a few lines of love in :)

Quite right; you're always welcome. Are these words from a hymn, or have you found an earthly someone to make you glad?

i'd say its more of a second than the first ;))

 

Don! What keeps you up so late? or is it actually already very early? :)

Interesting, interesting, interesting :0 I never did really understand O'Will :) I enjoy his concepts, I think it's the language that throws me! Maybe!

 

Anyway, I really love the way the jelly fishy :) appear so large & the man's expression is super. Well captured. Nice luminal color too!

this title line coupled with the delightful picture reminds me of the joy I found in scuba diving...(perhaps "drown" is an unfortunate association there, though! LOL!) Still, the sensation of being overcome with wonder at nature and the "other-worldliness" of the medium is brought strongly to my mind here. You have a gift for words, images and (I almost forgot)...music? A real renaissance man, oh dear...I can't keep pace, but I shall enjoy being part of your appreciative audience!

Photographing the jellies at the Oregon Coast Aquarium's big round tank, it got too

crowded (outside the tank) to exclude people from my shots, which bothered me at first,

but then I began to see possibilities, and this one ended up being my favorite from the

session. No manipulation—and distortion from the water-filled cylinder is

responsible for how wide that fellow seems; don't blame him.

Vi, I'm very happy to hear that (mazel tov)! And, yes it was late—though the time stamps are Eastern time, and I'm three zones west (earlier)—so not as late as it looks. I keep my laptop near my bed at night so, sometimes, when I wake (age, I guess) I have something to do that won't make noise or take long: see what's/who's up on PN.

Jayme, yeah, sorry about the Elizabethan English. Unlike the King James Version of the Bible (beautiful as it is), Shakespeare doesn't move on. See, in his case, we (mostly) have the original text, so it's revered as is. But you might be surprised how enjoyable it is to read his stuff in a good annotated edition. Time-consuming, reading all the notes that explain the archaic words and concepts, but a real look inside our language and culture; much more than just plays and poems.

I didn't pick a very accesssible sonnet here, true. It helps to know that John Dowland was the top-40 songmaker of the day (good stuff, too), and Edmund Spenser was the Poet Laureate of England, famous for multi-volume poems (makes ol' Will look easy), long, dense, filled with allegories. I suspect Will's use of the word "conceit" may be barbed.

Anyway, about the photo: thanks, I do believe this fellow makes it work. I'm happy he was too entranced to be shooting.

Lee, thank you. I feel you've formed much too high an opinion of my competency. But I do like this image, glad you feel what I do. If you're going to drown, might as well do it in deep delight.

whatever we do, let us do it with the utmost enthusiasm! Otherwise, what is the point?

 

As to my opinion, I can't help it...I'm a fan...

Don, an original take ! good colours and composition. cheers Jana

interesting and imaginative, don. a tad too bright on his arm, though, just a minor.

Jana, thanks for your kind words.

Klaus, I see from your rating that you like this better than others do; thank you. Bright? Yeah, that's the reflection of my flash from the far wall of the tank. Shooting into a cylinder is worse in that regard than shooting towards a mirror; there's no safe angle. All you can do is try to put something in the way of the bright spot and angle the flash to minimize it. I ended up actually liking it in this shot, though. It put me in mind of the mysterious glow from Mr. Wallace's briefcase in the film Pulp Fiction. Regards.

thx for explaining. personally, i try to avoid flash whenever i can. may be i just lack the proper technique. i admit it's difficult to get what you want when using an ISO 200 film. for that reason - and others, of course - i went digital. i'm convinced that ISO 800 would have done the job. what about a nikon 200? it supports your estimated mf lenses. just a thought ...

PS: not on the nikon pay roll, i use canon equipment:).