Meri's Play Place

The theme this week is SKY HIGH. I thought of this shot taken with my new wide-angle lens in portrait orientation in San Marco Square in Venice just a bit after daybreak when the only people stirring had tripods and cameras.

What's the old saying? It's something like being calm and unruffled at the surface while at the same time  you're paddling like crazy below. For more Photo Friday participants, click the button on the sidebar.

 Murrelets Flying in Formation They skim  through the air just above the water, beaks pointing east toward first light, arranged just so, a leader, his three or four loyal lieutenants jockeying for position and the rest  of the murrelet troops arrayed behind,  a surprisingly silent procession. "Rossano's Mirrored Murrelets"  - photo © 2009 Meri Arnett-Kremian. All rights reserved. In the pastel light, the still pool reveals a parallel flight, submerged, bellies exposed, floating in perfect formation upside-down, a dark ribbon joining each one to his double like a bloodless umbilical cord.