Evening Surf
I have always marveled at the power of the ocean. Growing up and living near beaches my whole life, I have sat for endless hours staring at waves break on the shore and explode with beautiful and graceful force, a literal infinite dance of foam and currents.
A while back I humbly attempted to capture just a bit of that and began venturing down to different beaches along the California coast. I used a combination of long exposure and flash on camera and found it allowed me to capture and see the different layers of the wave as it broke onshore. I would wade out into the shallow surf and stick my little Canon M100 into the path of an incoming wave, quickly firing off a few frames before yanking it back so the water wouldn’t fry its circuits.
The long exposure made visible the patterns of underlying currents, and the flash froze for an instance the rupturing foam as it leaped and sprayed in its last seconds of life before hitting the shoreline. There are a lot of beaches left in California to explore.
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