Photographs inspired by Walt Whitman's words and Ralph Vaughan Williams's music from Symphony No. 1, the Sea Symphony.
The photographs were made at Wester Ross in the Scottish highlands.
The composition in my camera - on a tripod in the same position all the time - did not vary throughout the sequence of images. I was struck by the way each image varied enormously in the shape and tone of the waves, the spray, and the light. Whitman's vivid description of waves came to mind.
Image 1:
Waves, undulating waves, liquid, uneven, emulous waves
Image 2:
... a myriad, myriad waves hastening, lifting up their necks
Image 3:
... toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves
Image 4:
... larger and smaller waves in the spread of the ocean yearnfully flowing
Image 5:
... waves of the ocean bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying
Image 6:
... a motley procession with many a fleck of foam and many fragments
Image 7:
... flashing and frolicsome under the sun
Credits:
All photographs copyright Bruce Cains, 2016