Aquamarine
by Cheri Randolph
Title
Aquamarine
Artist
Cheri Randolph
Medium
Photograph
Description
Intense color appears in the wave action along the rocky shore of Innisheer, smallest of the Aran Islands, Ireland.
The island is an extension of The Burren. The terrain of the island is composed of limestone pavements with crisscrossing cracks known as "grikes", leaving isolated rocks called "clints". Because of this unusual environment, the Island supports a varied collection of plant life; Mediterranean and alpine plants side-by-sidet. Like the Burren, the Aran islands are renowned for their remarkable assemblage of plants and animals. The grikes (crevices) provide moist shelter, thus supporting a wide range of plants including dwarf shrubs. Where the surface of the pavement is shattered into gravel, many of the hardier Arctic or Alpine plants can be found. But when the limestone pavement is covered by a thin layer of soil, patches of grass are seen, interspersed with plants like the gentian and orchids.
The limestones date from the Visean period (Lower Carboniferous), formed as sediments in a tropical sea approximately 350 million years ago, and compressed into horizontal strata with fossil corals, crinoids, sea urchins and ammonites.
Glaciation following the Namurian phase facilitated greater denudation. The result is that Inisheer is one of the finest examples of a Glacio-Karst landscape in the world. The effects of the last glacial period (the Midlandian) are most in evidence, with the island overrun by ice during this glaciation. The impact of earlier Karstification (solutional erosion) has been eliminated by the last glacial period, so any Karstification now seen dates from approximately 10,000 years ago and the island Karst is thus recent.
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November 3rd, 2012
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Cheri Randolph
Jose, Thanks very much for your feature of "Aquamarine" in the Stop Time with Art Group. Your support is greatly appreciated!
Cheri Randolph
Nadine & Bob, Thanks very much for featuring "Aquamarine" in the Artists News Group. I sincerely appreciate your promotional support!
JOHN TELFER
Cheri, What a fantastic looking site, this is a place that I would love to be sitting at and just hanging out listening and watching the waves roll in. The white water is great and the light blue color within the curl of the wave is remarkable. Great depth to this photo as you are brought into the photo by combing over the rocks and then into the water and the waves and out into the ocean till you see that great horizon and beautiful sky shot. Excellent seascape photo, favorite, voted, google, tweet and FB promoted from the group, Artist News - Comment and Vote thread
Cheri Randolph replied:
John, thanks for your most generous comment and support of this photograph. After visiting your gallery, I would say that you would enjoy the Aran Islands very much, as you are never removed from wonderful seascape views. Hope that you are able to experience it sometime.
Cheri Randolph
Brooke, That color caught my eye as well. Glad you enjoyed this one. Thanks for your nice compliment and the v/f also.
Brooke Ryan
Cheri, the horizontal lines and contrasting textures are wonderful here, and the color of that wave is GORGEOUS! v/f~
Cheri Randolph
Randy, I'm glad that you enjoyed this one, and I really appreciate your support of my photo!
Randy Rosenberger
Love the rolling waves approaching the rocky shoreline, Cheri! Great blue and white color of the roll and the sky is beautiufl! fave and vote
Mona Edulescu
Superb seascape, Cheri... love so much that turquoise wave...:) F&V
Cheri Randolph replied:
Mona, many thanks for your nice comment and the F/V. That's what I liked about it too!
Katie Wing Vigil
Gorgeous color! vote.
Cheri Randolph replied:
Katie, thanks for your comment & vote. I, too, was surprised by this display of color as the light caught this wave.