Silver Strand, Co. MayoI'd been watching the tide come in for a while before I committed to a composition. The rocks at Silver Strand are what held me there. They're a deep oxide red, smooth and flat topped from years of grinding surf, and they were slowly disappearing under the rising water. That's what I wanted to capture. The long exposure let the waves drag and streak between the rocks over several seconds. You lose the chaos of the surf and get this slow pull instead,