Reading the Water: Seascape Composition Lessons from Cathedral Rocks
There’s a particular problem that humbles coastal photographers more than almost any other situation: you arrive at a beautiful rocky shoreline at first light, the sky does something extraordinary, and you freeze. Not from cold, though that’s real too, but from indecision. Where do you stand? Which way do you point? Do you wait for the wave to come in or let it pull back? I’ve been making images for twenty years and I still feel that paralysis sometimes.