Shimmering Spirts by Ni'hau and Lehua Islands
by Debra Banks
Title
Shimmering Spirts by Ni'hau and Lehua Islands
Artist
Debra Banks
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
I don't normally heavily process my photographs of the ocean. However, with this series of four photographs, taken at Polihale Beach, Kauai, showing the islands of Ni'hau and Lehua, I intentionally blew out the white in the images and gave them a jarring and harsh metallic glow. I found this place to be so mystical that if by some chance ocean spirits had appeared, I would have had no choice other than to shield my eyes from their ethereal light.
Polihale, an uncommonly beautiful beach, casts an almost sacred spell on all who visit. Isolated and other-worldly, Polihale beach hugs the shore below steep mounds of blazing, white sand called Nohilili Dunes. At the end of an old sugarcane road, Polihale is the site of ancient Hawaiian temple ruins, originally constructed at a point over the ocean where Hawaiians believed the souls of the dead departed for Po, the underworld.
Described as the island where "time stands still," the Forbidden Island of Niihau is one of the most intriguing places you're not allowed to visit.
Lehua Island is a small, uninhabited, crescent-shaped island in the Hawaiian islands, 0.7 miles (1.1 km) north of Niʻihau and due west of Kauai.
In Hawaiian mythology, Nāmaka (or Nā-maka-o-Kahaʻi, the eyes of Kahaʻi) appears as a sea goddess or a water spirit and she is an older sister of Pele-honua-mea.
In the mythology of old Hawaii, Kanaloa was the god of the ocean, a healer god, and the close companion of Kane, the god of creation.
Hawaiian Language;
Ocean - Moana
Wave - Nalu
My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came" John F. Kennedy
"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans". Kahlil Gibran
The beauty of ocean waves and the infinite shapes and textures that it offers...when we take the time to watch and observe its creations.
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May 30th, 2019
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