Time stands still in a blur

When I sit down to write the Pic of the Week, words usually just flow to my fingertips from my subconcious (followed by a bit of editing), but this time, after I had selected these photos on Saturday, I had the weekend to think about what to say, and so many things came to mind to say (about time going by in a blur, having more demanded of us but getting less done, and taking time out to slow down, etc.) but none of it felt like it was what I really wanted to say.
Then I sat down, now, to send this, and the first line above happened... and I realised that it was perfect. That's exactly how I work, whether it's photography, writing, design, or much of life, really: intuitively, with concious thought and planning coming afterwards.
That's what happend with this series of abstract images that I'm sending you this week. Finding myself on the beach, again, and a little bored with the usual, I intuitively experiemented with something different, panning my Brikon with a slow shutter spead. I quite liked the results and ran around trying different things as the day got brighter, but then forgot about them, overwhelmed as I've been by day to day living... until I rediscovered them while backing up this weekend, and getting delightfully distracted from my planned "to do's" in the process.
I've titled the series "Time Stands Still In A Blur", as they are a little moment of presence - of nowness -  squeezed into days that seem to be going by all to quickly with too little of the important stuff and way to much of the pushy, so called "urgent" stuff. I hope you enjoy a little moment of calm nowness as you view them.
(These pics really need to be viewed large, so I recommend viewing them full screen via my website at http://pix.andynix.co.za/-/galleries/fine-art-prints/sea-dawn-series/-/medias/e7f5619b-2f8d-44f9-86be-3bb9316764bb-mountain-sea-and-sky/fs. I've done very minimal processing on them, just a little colour toning. I realised that the subtlety may be lost as they appear rather more flat on my laptop compared to my calibrated monitor, so I think these are ones for another exhibition, printed large, the way I like to see my work!)

Swartkop above Simon's Town, viewed across False Bay from Sunrise Beach

Fisherman collecting bait at dawn (How much more? Fish? Time?)

Dawn Flight (Seagull at sunrise)

Coming in to Shore

Missing the rain - beach at dawn

Dawn lines