Sea. Sky. Horizontal. This sort of seascape view would not be considered a real ‘composition’ in any of the ‘how-to’ books. Where’s the focal point? Without a boat, or an island, or a few palm trees, it isn’t really a picture, is it? I don’t think so. These semi-abstract horizontal parallels have the formal symmetry and subtlety of Mark Rothko paintings, but they contain and reveal much more subtle beauty than paint and canvas ever could.

1. In the early morning on the east coast, the sun reveals the wave of spray that always accompanies the wave, but stays invisible without strong low backlight.
2. Late afternoon surfers (perfectly but accidentally arranged) paddle out towards a wave that is just catching the last rays of the sun before it sinks behind the sand dunes.
3. Every wave, just before it breaks on the shore, lifts itself up into a translucent wall, revealing its inner colour, not the reflected colour of the sky.
4. Wind and water in different combinations of form always behave in similar ways because that is in the nature of those substances. Foam, breaking waves, spray, clouds, are all turbulent visual echoes of each other at the margin between the water below and the sky above.