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Final shots in a rising tide, from waves to sea stacks

Final shots in a rising tide, from waves to sea stacks

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Final shots in a rising tide, from waves to sea stacks

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- Now continuing back to the trail, I found another group of rocks, three rocks, waves coming in, so much fun. I mean it just gets addicting. Around a half second to one second, closer to a half second, and I had one wave come right over the rocks and hit me pretty good, and I just love the drama I'm seeing here as I review the images in the LCD. Now I finished with one last composition. There is a sea stack that I noticed when I initially came down to the beach, just a beautiful sea stack, and I thought to myself, Okay, I've done the long exposure, smooth water, I've done the waves hitting the rocks, but what I haven't done is just a simple wave, kind of sitting out and then moving slowly back, and doing something around two seconds. So, again, I did something at five minutes, milky cream water, I've done something at a half second, action, but I wanted just this really nice streak leading to this simple sea stack. It's something I think I might even crop to a square. I'll try black…

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