Glen Cowans Photography
Blue Lagoon
Non editioned print
Coral atolls are the oceanic version of oases in a desert. Here they rise from the abyssal depths to the life giving sunlit waters of the Ocean's surface, providing a space for thriving ecosystems in what would be just deep blue sea. Traveling across the inner lagoon of the Cocos Keeling Islands, the emerald and turquoise hues seem to glow from underneath you... but it is only once you gain some elevation that the bigger picture from upon high reveals just how breath-taking these calm clear waters within atolls are. It is as if they are the sanctity of life itself - no wonder all the colours blue are always so calming to our souls.