A moment in bloom.

A moment in bloom. 2012.

Shot with a long exposure as the tide pulled away, this image turns a simple wave into something more like drawn lines on a page. The blurred water fans out in soft arcs that lead you from the foreground into the calm bands of sea and sky beyond. It sits somewhere between landscape and abstraction, holding on to enough detail to feel like a real place while letting the motion of the ocean become the main subject.

24 mm • 1.6 sec • f/5.6 • ISO 100.