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The lovely views of the Antrim coast kept my wife Liz and I happily staring ahead as we paddled in the Atlantic surf at Whitepark Bay.
But as we strolled along the line of breaking waves I spotted this strand of seaweed anchored to a semi-buried rock, which the receding waves had left pointing directly towards the ocean like a giant exclamation mark.
It was too good an opportunity to pass by, so I crouched down, adjusted my ND grad filter to darken the sky and took a few handheld exposures with varying patterns of breaking waves in the middle ground.
This was the best of the bunch.
The whole shoot only took about thirty seconds before I was up and on my way to catch up with my wife who was by now, several yards ahead.
Filename - beach seaweed 02.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure - 1/20sec @ f16, ISO100
Location - Whitepark Bay, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
This image - 533x800px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - ND grad filter used to control tonal range.
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