Landscape photography is all about choices – choosing perspective, distance, and focal point. In this image the nearest rock is in focus; it’s of a considerable size but it’s not centrally placed. The result? – the viewer gains a greater sense of the scale of what’s out in the water: the enormity of the central rock, the power of the waves, and the mountainous coast. By focusing on a minor aspect, a major impact takes shape, calculated to be unnoticed at first glance.
“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. ~ Herman Melville
