A little bit further up the coast from that ‘first’ image, Colin and I wandered down to a place called ‘Hidden Cove.’ I set up on the left-hand side of this beach and tried to work with this wonderful rock. The weird thing (to me) about this beach were the stones. Having grown up at the Jersey Shore, I know of two kinds of beach: a) sand and b) rock. Both of those kinds of beach stay under your feet when you stand someplace. This beach was thousands of small pebbles. Wet, slimy pebbles that, when you stepped someplace, acted a lot like soft sand and squished out from under your foot. But, being bigger than bits of sand, the MOVED a lot more. Footing was almost slippery, and the going was much harder than I had anticipated. I’m not a slight, small guy, so I kinda trudged (swam?) along to set up the tripod. And, when the tide started to, um, come IN a little, I packed up and Colin and I moved on.
Wow, my first reaction was that the rock formation looked like a Tiki. That just sent my mind wandering and considering the connection between the sculpted wood forms I find fascinating and their likely origins as primitive man stumbled on similar natural occurrences.
Just wonderful how, in this composition, the eye ignores the crashing wave for the little man in the corner.
Fantastic Chris this one is out of the park.
Thanks, Kevin, one thing I was going for here was to create a little tension in the area of ‘where do I look?’ and, indeed, hoped to pull you away from the wave.
I was very consciously working with techniques DeWolfe talks about in his book. I’m glad that they worked for you, Ray.
That’s quite an image, really well captured and exposed. The details in the pebbles and the tonal change of these the closer to the crashing waves they are is just wonderful. I just love that opening in the rock formation. It’s like a doorway between stillness and wild nature forces. A really great image.
[...] from today, I was thinking. Having seen all the lovely images from Paul’s Charlotte, from Chris’ trip to California, and also Ray’s image from Port Townsend, wouldn’t it be nice to show how the beaches [...]