This continues with my fascination with waves or anything to do with water really.Again it is the way water interacts with light and how it moves.
So again I put life and limb at risk meaning I got wet feet, and salt stained trousers in Pembroke. I primarily went to take large format images, but strong winds and large waves quite close to the front of the camera with my head under a cloth makes me nervous enough to do something else. So my digital camera comes to the rescue, even if I was cursing the extra weight on the walk down.
Again as I've said before, freezing movement in waves with a short exposure makes them seem violent or dramatic or both. In addition, a tripod can be used 'fixing' the landscape instead of panning the camera with the wave and blurring the landscape.
Some compositions are better suited to this approach. In these cases the foreground rock and the background rocks have similar triangular shapes.
The waves breaking over the foreground rock echo the rock shapes hopefully making a more coherent composition. The waves contrasting with their tone and/or colour.
Capturing something like this takes perserverance and again digital photography helps, you can see what you have shot at the time and erase those that turn out badly (about 40 in this case), saving the few better ones (about 4 in this case).
I dutifully trudged back up the cliff and the mile or so to the car park with my digital camera forgiven this once.
Feb'07