Coconut Swirls

We discovered this by accident on the beach at Le Victoria in Mauritius in 2013.

After supper on a typically warm night in December 2013 we went for a walk on the beach with our cameras.

Remembering the fun we had painting baobabs at Victoria Falls in 2011, we started looking for ways to use slow shutter speeds to create unusual effects.

We splashed water and threw sand in the air before Tristan started filling an empty coconut with water and tossing it into the air with interesting but unspectacular results.

Then we tried launching the coconut into the air with sand spiraling out against the dark sky creating intricate coconut swirls of infinite patterns.

Abracadabra

This one has a jelly fish vibes.

In a spin

All of the pictures above used the same settings

Canon EOS 30D

f/4

1/60 sec

ISO 320

Shutter priority

Flash on

Another example of how simple and fun photography can be.