sea on Oxymoronical

Lifeguard station at sunset

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:48:19 +0000

Many years ago me and my family used to live in Ventura County in California. There are many things we miss about the place and this beach is one of them. Silver Strand in Oxnard has fine silky sand, and a wide beach that is never really crowded. We try to rent a beach house here whenever we’re in the area and this is a sunset I caught one evening. A print of this hangs on the wall above my bed.

Ship at night

Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:55:25 +0000

Me and my wife took a cruise down to Mexico and on one of the days when we went to eat ashore it got dark as we were on the way back to the boat. I forget now how I managed a 30 second exposure without a tripod but I guess I must have used a handy post or something to keep the camera stable.

Skimming the water

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:54:32 +0000

I’m always impressed at how close pelicans skim to the surface of the sea, no matter how many waves there are.

Willet in flight

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:52:53 +0000

Perhaps oddly the thing I most love about this photo is the stream of water from the tips of the Willet’s toes to the water as it launches itself into the air.

Crashing wave

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:56:17 +0000

Water, and particularly the movement of water is something I love to see. Waves are particularly interesting, they can be so powerful yet so beautiful.

Woman splashed by waves

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:47:26 +0000

I shot this in Hawaii in the very early days of owning a DSLR. As well as being a great candid shot of a woman by the sea it also taught me valuable lessons about cleaning lenses because my camera got caught in the splash. To my credit I already had a UV filter on the lens so I could just take that off and carry on.