Water. Magic.
Written by John Macpherson
Water. © John MacPherson
I like water. Water is amazing stuff.
I stood on this beach, a gentle slope, and watched fresh water from a little stream fan out across the sand.
To help it show me it’s tricks I stood in the water, facing the sun, letting sheen and glare polish its act.
It rippled and bubbled and moved and swayed around me and gradually formed itself into a wispy tendril-waving liquid creature that tickled it’s way over the sand to the sea.
Sometimes it was like a hand, sometimes it was like a plant.
But it was never like water.
Until it came over the rim of my shoe and soaked my foot.
Author — John Macpherson
John MacPherson was born and lives in the Scottish Highlands. He trained as a welder in the Glasgow shipyards, before completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter, and then qualified as a Social Worker in Disability Services. Along the way he has cooked on canal barges, trained as an Alpine Ski Leader & worked as an Instructor for Skiers with disabilities, been a canoe instructor, and tutor of night classes in carpentry, stained glass design and manufacture, and archery. He has travelled extensively on various continents, undertaking solo trips by bicycle, or motorcycle. He has had narrow escapes from an ambush by terrorists, been hit by lightning, caught in an erupting volcano, trapped in a mobile home by a tornado, kidnapped by a dog's hairdresser, rammed by a basking shark and was once bitten by a wild otter. He has combined all this with professional photography, which he has practised for over 35 years. He teaches photography and acts as a photography guide & tutor in the UK and abroad. His biggest challenge is keeping his 30 year old Land Rover 110 on the road. He loves telling and hearing stories.