Give a nature photographer a good beach lined with plenty of rocks and they will be busy for hours. The variety of compositions and subject matter can be endless. Beach rocks are always best photographed in bright overcast light to avoid harsh shadows and reflections. A polarizer is a very useful tool to keep the reflections under control as well. We are fortunate in the Great Lakes region to have the great coastline of Lake Superior which has an abundance of rocky landscapes and beach stones. I just wish it wasn’t so far away from where I live and I could do this type of stuff every week.

Departing from the typical overhead pattern type shot, I got down on my belly to photograph small waves crashing over these beach stones. It sort of looks like half impressionistic painting/half photograph – which is kind of cool to me in the way the different portions contrast and complement each other.