I love mornings like this.
The fog that had settled over the cape this morning was thick, atmospheric, and foreboding. Not many other people wanted to see what the Cape had in store that morning – in other words I had miles and miles of ocean all to myself.
Walking from the car-park out towards the shore I couldn’t see much ahead of me. As I got further and further from my car the only discernible difference was that I could hear the slow crash and shake of waves hitting one another and eventually the shoreline.
Location:
Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts
Date:
August 8th, 2020
Camera:
Sony A7RIV
I spent quite some time at the coast that morning watching and waiting to see what would happen at sunrise. Nothing really came or went. It was just quiet, lonely, and foggy.
Eventually after struggling to take a photograph including any kind of foreground interest (there was none on the shorefront) I decided that I needed to change my process.
I began to instead focus for a far more abstract subject – letting the soft rippling waves be the foreground interest I was struggling to find. With an exposure of 1/15 of a second, I snapped my favorite shot of the morning. I love the way that the fog makes the whole scene blend into one cohesive view. You see no horizon – but know it must be there.