"Where Land Meets Sea"

So, you even timed out the waves - or does luck smile on the truly talented? Excellent composition and value and hue judgments. Excellent, Mark.

Thanks Wayne. Timing with luck. I spent some time getting my feet wet, planting the tripod into the sand, clicking the shutter and then running. Twice I timed the waves right for the capture, only to get properly doused on the backside. I like to make blends with bracketed exposures, but when the wave would be outgoing, the undertow would pull on the sand and marginally move the tripod, making it a challenge. I found that pushing down on the tripod with the first exposure would help. This is the prettiest beach on the island I believe. Thanks for stopping by!!

Thanks for your impressions!

I could write a dissertation on tripod movement in sand, particularly with waves added. I like this most of your recent shots. It looks like you were using a pretty short shutter speed.

Beautiful light, pretty pastel colors, it seems very soothing to look at.

Mark... Wow, I get to go to Hawaii and you bought the ticket! The larger view is simply stunning and the colors so soft and pleasing. And in an extremely rare opportunity in your work, I get to make a technical comment and it's one of my favorites :-)... you know, the horizon. In all honesty, it's so trivial that it was only after soaking up the entire scene that it caught my eye... Thanks for sharing with us... Mike

 

 

Thanks Jeff, Claude and Mike! Yes Jeff, most of my attempts were to use the fastest shutter possible. On this morning, the waves were lazily incoming, so f/5.6 @ 1/20 sec. was sufficient to freeze the wave. I actually experimented with higher ISOs to reduce exposure time, but I haven't got to processing those yet. Mike, you rascal. I didn't check this one for levelness, but I guess I need to stop processing these files while laying down. Thanks for catching that (it's not so trivial, if "Plumb Bob" Chris Harris comes along, he's going to dink me good).