MICHAEL KAHN PHOTOGRAPHY    Michael Kahn

   RAGGED EDGES    Diane Buccheri

   TIME    Diane Buccheri

   THE '50s    Ron Gillis
  
   EDGE OF THE ETERNAL SEA    Melba Milak
  
   TALLULAH    Kathy Parra

   ON THE OCEAN    J. Perry Wilbur

   BEHEMOTHS OF THE DEEP BLUE    Chuck Graham

   I MISS THE OCEAN    Mitch Bensel
 
   UNTIL RODANTHE    Juli E. Ocean   

   THE BEACH    Danny P. Barbare

   A WAY WITH WORDS    for John Thomas Clark

   OCEAN WRITING CONTEST WINNER    Chaitali Banerjee



A glimpse into this issue . . .





 
  




   MICHAEL KAHN PHOTOGRAPHY

    www.michaelkahn.com 
   



   Michael Kahn captures the moment with a 1950s camera using 1 lens,
   and sometimes a tripod. In the darkroom he develops each image on
   traditional black and white film and produces 50 signed silver gelatin
   prints. His photographs exhibit in museums and art galleries throughout
   the world.

 


    See his Photographs


      









 
   TIME

   by Diane Buccheri




   Did you ever feel that time stands still by the water, and on the water?
   Time slips away with the waves, floats on the breeze. Diane Buccheri
   discusses the relevance of Time in our modern lives vs. the Time kept
   by the sun, moon, earth, and tide - the real time. “Time is a manmade
   concept. In the ocean, creatures in the dark depths rise to the surface
   to feed with the coming and going of sunlight, twice daily, with the
   exchange between day and night.”



   Read the Article

 



 


   THE '50s
  
    by Ron Gillis




    Ron Gillis grew up fishing in Gloucester, Massachusetts in the '50s. By the
    1970s he fished again and witnessed smaller catches. Technology had
    already depleted the Atlantic's fish greatly. And what's worse, in the
    1990s the Atlantic commercial fishermen remembered the '70s as the
    good old days when there were plenty of fish.




      Read the Story 











 
  
    EDGE OF THE ETERNAL SEA
   

    written and photographed by Melba Milak
 


    Full from Creole and Cajun meals, Melba Milak meanders down the
    Muddy Mississippi River from the Big Easy into the Gulf of Mexico.
    Jazz rhythms accompany her past wetlands below sea level, thick
    with vegetation. Oil rigs loom sinister. Names of foreign companies
    she cannot read claim them. Large ships blast seismic arrays deep
    into the water in search of more oil and gas reserves. Yet, surrounded
    by blue, she finds peace.


    Read the Story


 

 
   TALLULAH
 

   by Kathy Parra




   Tallulah, a dolphin swimming in the oil from the BP oil spill comes to Kathy.
   With every breath, she feels the oil running through her lungs, through
   her body. It is getting harder to swim. Her time is coming. Kathy holds her
   while she passes.



    Read the Story
  



 
  BEHEMOTHS OF THE DEEP BLUE
 
   written and photographed by Chuck Graham




   At Seal Point on San Miguel Island off the coast of California,
   every bit of sand was covered by a northern elephant seal.
   “As I paddled by the crowded, craggy cove, I came up on
   a swirling submerged rock, or so I thought. Suddenly, 2 bull
   elephant seals broke the surface on either side of my kayak.”
   Chuck Graham describes these nearly once distinct mammals
   as diving machines who migrate approximately 24,000 miles
   per year.


    Read the Story
 

  And so much more!