My first seascape.
The week between Christmas and New Years' my Patrone and I took a trip to Hawaii. I love the water, and I love being in the water, and so we had scheduled a scuba diving lesson, one of the things still on my bucket list. However, it was canceled because of a "rough, wintery day". In Hawaii. This means, I've figure out, that it's cloudy and the wind is blowing. Now, I've always shied away from painting water, especially waves. It just looks difficult. I took this picture from "flat island" or Popoi Island. It's a tiny island, barely a dot even on a close up on Google Earth. We had kayaked out there in a rented kayak in choppy seas and wandered around on it. My reference photo: Flat Island in Hawaii In taking this picture, I stood for quite some time trying to capture a large splash made by the choppy seas. It didn't work. Every time I turned my back, BIG SPLASH. When I turned around, the best I got was the one above. Nevertheless, ...