Water versus land: the continual erosive forces of this interaction mold shorelines across the Earth. Hard as the igneous and metamorphic rock can be there, coastal Maine is no exception. The boulder, of course, blows the wave up into millions of drops, as it will the next one of similar magnitude. Yet the surf in relentless progression, wave by wave, grain by grain, will wear this rock to a small, smooth relic of its current self, over many thousands of years of booming collisions like this. Whether one’s photography preferences lean toward instants frozen in time, as here, or short time exposures to feather the wave action artistically, I thoroughly enjoy time spent observing and photographing rough surf. As an Oklahoma landlubber residing over soft red shales and sandstones, the occasions don’t arise often enough to take for granted! I shot this with a zoom lens, from the same vantage as a wondrously moonlit wide-angle scene a few days prior.
3 ENE Northeast Harbor ME (5 Oct 22) Looking S
44.3019, -68.2036