Thanks for comments. It is a moody treatment, all right. I found myself getting more and more interested in the light on the foam, and that\'s what I went for when I was processing this version, choosing not to recover detail in the rocks, in the version posted here. I do agree, Floris, that some detail would be desirable in a print, as the shadows in this treatment are a bit categorical!
It\'s a tricky place - these rock pinnacles only start to be played with by the waves an hour or so before high water, and you are hemmed in, in a tiny space with vertical cliffs behind you, and a climb over a tall rib of rock your only escape route if you linger too long! The strand is open to the direct Atlantic rollers, and normally the waves are huge. It happened to be unusually calm on this occasion, thank goodness, but once I\'d captured this first swoosh of water through the rocks, I made a dash between waves to terra firma. Sad that one can\'t hang about there longer, but the stance is quickly lost in deep and fast-moving water...
Dec 31, 2008 at 06:23 PM
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