This is one of my recent favorites. I took this in a brief break from the storm that has been hitting California these past few weeks.
One of the features of this image that makes it so effective, is the communication of scale. I was up on a cliff overlooking the churning water. The tide would recede and swell far out past that rock in the middle of the photo and all the way back in again. It was difficult to show how long the wave breaks were. But placing these three people in the bottom of the composition helps to display how expansive the ocean was in that moment when given small humans for comparison. And placing them near the bottom of the image, emphasizes the weight of the shore rushing in front of them. Additionally, the massive driftwood tree next to them provides even more context to show just how vast the water was.
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