Through The Lens: Tumultuous Fragmentation.

Why is it that we are all always drawn to the sea? Personally I am drawn to any large expanse of wanter, almost magnetically. I had the most strange experience a few weeks ago when visiting relatives in sussex. We had gone for a trip to the seaside to see the storm induced waves as they were reportedly extremely tumultuous that day. The reports were correct, it was an extremely angry sea that day. I was armed with my camera but what pulled me to the seas edge most was the danger of the water. I knew that it was not safe but I just needed to get closer, I was so drawn to the sea it was almost scary. (I am writing this so obviously nothing bad happened).

Now to the real reason for writing this post: A photographer who has been on my radar for a while is Clarke Little He has an absolutely stunning ability to capture waves and seascapes. This is an area of photography that up until the moment I was presented with such an angry sea myself I had never even thought about trying. But the memories of Littles images flickered into my brain and I decided that I would give it a shot (literally). To give you an idea of the amazing work that little does here is his 'be different' advert for Nikon.


My seascapes are obviously nowhere near as polished as his as I was not prepared to lay in the sea to capture them nor do I have a waterproof camera, so it would have been a short shoot had that been my decision. But using a very short shutter speed I was able to capture some fragmented moments of beauty within the chaos of the raging sea. Here are my best: