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A single wave curling over in warm backlight, spray blowing off the lip in a fine golden mist against a dark shoreline.

The Golden Wave

May 2019

1D X Mark II, 100 millimetres, f 11, 1/2000 of a second, ISO 640

Backlight turns spray into smoke.

Shoot into the sun and the spray coming off the back of a wave stops being water and becomes smoke. One wave, one lip, and an offshore wind doing all the work.