Dancing with the Waves by Marc Adamus

Dancing with the Waves by Marc Adamus

I was fortunate to find myself in Glacier this past week with a workshop. The breeze was kicking up on the lakes on this morning, eliminating the reflections. On this rocky shore, offering little in the way of interest, someone asked, of course, how I would make the picture. Tending to resist the same types of stuff done over and over again, I often respond by looking smaller, beyond the perspective that most commonly greets our eye. So I look at these little waves, only inches high, and I put my camera on the ground, right on top of a rock. Shooting at 1/8 of a second with my camera getting splashed, I took many shots focused for the foreground rocks and waves splashing off of them. It looks like an ocean now, but there isn’t anything (wave or rock) in the foreground of this image that is further than 15 inches from my lens! I take another shot for the background areas near the same time, dry off the lens, repeat process. We just got lucky with the light.

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