Poring Over the Picture
This is a photograph about light, pattern, and texture on Florida’s Atlantic Coast.
It was shot before dawn, when there can be some beautiful light. (You never know
what you’ll get until you’re on-site, of course.) If I had waited until the sun rose in
the sky, I would’ve missed this beautiful beach scene. The clear sky and slight clouds
at the horizon resulted in a much less interesting sunrise than the time just before it.
The composition has some
abstract qualities from the way
the textures on the left and right
create shapes that contrast with
the water in the tidepool.
Because the tide had gone out, small
tidepools formed in the sand. That,
combined with patterns in the sand
from wave action, is what makes the
scene interesting.
