Seascapes – Lens-Artists Photo Challenge

Thanks to Amy for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. I love photographing the ocean!

I’ve always been more of a mountain girl than an ocean girl. I did spend a couple of winters in the Florida Keys in my early 20s. It was too flat for me. I got homesick for vertical topography.

Since then, other than one winter in Hawaii, I’ve made the mountains and the deserts my home. Although I’d occasionally visit the coast on my way somewhere else, I never really spent much time there.

That changed a couple of winters ago when I took up petsitting. I’ve finally had a few opportunities to live near, and get to know, the shore and its many moods, spending quality time on the Pacific Coast beaches in Washington, Oregon, and California.

I’ve learned to love the sea in its many moods –

calm

or wild,

sunny,

foggy,

or stormy.

I like the big waves of winter a lot. I could watch them for hours.

But what I like the best are the sunsets. Sometimes I shoot generic sunsets – just sky, waves, and sand.

But often I try to find a silhouette the foreground to set off the sunset. Sometimes I use nature-

sometimes not.

When was the last time you caught a sunset at the sea?