My Sea Change

Flying Fish is anchored bow and stern in the iridescent waters of the Turkish Mediterranean Sea. Photography:  © Jeffrey Cardenas

In the past 30 months, Flying Fish has carried me through the western Caribbean, across the Pacific to Polynesia, south to New Zealand, New Caledonia, Australia, and across Southeast Asia. Within every molecule of water I have encountered a life and landscape that is profoundly different. Now, as I begin my passage through the Mediterranean Sea, I am experiencing another significant sea change. There will be time to reflect and write of these changes, but, as always, my first impressions are visual. Here is a small portfolio of images from the Turkish Mediterranean and some initial thoughts on this exciting new water.

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I cannot even image the geological upheaval that applied this amount of pressure on the landscape. If only rocks could talk.

At first glance it just looks like a rock. Look closer and let your eyes drift across the striations of texture and color. Imagine the mass and density. I won’t get mystical about this but it is clear to me that this rock has its own power. No human being created this rock.

This is not an image of a beach. My camera is underwater pointed at a mosaic of pebbles on the bottom, six feet below the surface. The water clarity is otherworldly.

The landscape is rugged and wild on the Kapıdağ Yarımadası Peninsula of Turkey’s Mediterranean coastline. Photography:  © Jeffrey Cardenas

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