Hidden Textures
Depending on how it is accomplished, motion or speed blur allows the viewer to sit in awe of a segment of the Ocean as it comes to life before their very eyes. New textures, shadows and shadows convey the sense of movement as one simply watches.
A Trace of a Wave
As small waves near the end of their journey, I track them with a slower-than-normal shutter speed. This in turn renders them with a palette more associated with pastel hues. It also creates a riot of motion.
Ghost Waves
A handheld pan using a longer shutter speed is normally associated for a genre of shooting called ICM or Intentional Camera Movement. In this case the ghosting waves drive the imagination and transport the viewer to their own time on the shores of Toguchi Beach.
Give Me An ‘A’
Intentional Camera Movement is an emerging genre within photography. It allows the artist to create artwork that appeals to their interpretation of the scene when absorbing the textures, colors, and motion before them.
Expiration
At the end of their journey, waves wash ashore amidst a riot of motion and turmoil. Their death throes, be they loud and violent or subdued whispers are all nonetheless aesthetically unique.
Domestic Arrival
A wavelet arrives on a beach in the northern confines of the main island at sunset. Could it have originated in the neighboring island of Yoron or Amami Oshima? Could it be from further afield, yet from within national boundaries?
Somewhat Warped
A panorama of the horizon at sunset, when taken with a supremely wide-angle lens, will result in a somewhat bowed perspective. Depending on the sweep of the arm will determine just how severe that bow will become.
Green Slide
To be able to capture the full gamut of Ocean tones one also has to wait for days when the sun doesn't shine, day's when after significant rains the waters become green and turbid.
Ocean Fold
Slab waves abound in Okinawa when the swells become more significant. They tend to be squat, thick, and incredibly powerful. They always make for great photographic subjects too.
Golden Horizon
An eruption of motion, tones, and light in this motion panorama captivates the viewer. Shot around 30 minutes before sunrise on the east of the main island of Okinawa after a night of wild camping in the Yambaru region.
Spin Cycle
These fantastic tones and textures are created when a wave starts to barrel toward shore when photographed and tracked using a slower-than-normal shutter speed. With enough practice, I've been able to track waves such as this throughout their trajectory to achieve a very particular aesthetic.
Ebb and Flow
Like fingerprints, these textures and swirls of motion are unique to every liquid passage. A moment in time captured, never to be repeated. This makes these moments so very unique and special.
A Trace of Waves
Whether a rough, grey day or one of tranquility filled with the vibrant hues of a tropical sunset. This imaging style creates ponderous scenes in all settings.
Evening Hues
The subdued evening hues in Northern Okinawa with a trace of the receding sun. A slow shutter panorama that enthuses the viewer to bask in the warmth of a tropical evening.
Zampa Goes Wild
Cape Zampa is by far one of, if not the, best location to watch and photograph monster waves as they crash ashore during times of big Ocean swell and more dangerously during typhoons that hit Okinawa through the Summer months.