When Plans Fall Apart: How to Shoot Coastal Long Exposures with Whatever the Day Gives You

When Plans Fall Apart: How to Shoot Coastal Long Exposures with Whatever the Day Gives You

There’s a version of landscape photography that looks like pure intention. You pick the location, you check the forecast, you set three alarms. Then there’s the version that actually happens. I’ve been shooting full-time for twenty years, and I still have mornings where everything unravels before I’ve touched the camera. What keeps those mornings from being wasted isn’t luck. It’s having a secondary project already thought through, something you can pull off the shelf when your original plan falls apart.