I grew up by the North Atlantic Ocean and I’ve been shooting seascapes since I first picked up my camera many years ago. Seascape photography is like landscape photography, with the primary difference being the sea is the main subject instead of a piece of land. Seascape photography usually involves shooting pieces of land like rocks, cliffs, mountains, as part of photograph but the main focus is water. There are challenges to seascape photography. You always have to be aware of your surroundings and constantly observe what is happening around you to stay safe (waves, tides, slipping on rocks and wet terrain) and keeping your camera equipment dry (sea spray). Because you are basically always dealing with movement (of water) aperture, shutter speed, neutral density filters and long exposures are all important shooting factors.
Everything else accounted for, can’t beat the smell of the fresh salt air, the sound of the waves hitting the shore, the beautiful and stunning rocky coasts, piers, wharfs, lighthouses and of course “stormy weather” are all reasons that bring me back again and again.
"Hurricane Earl lands on Outer Cove Beach" (Avalon Peninsula, NL, Canada). September 7, 2022: Canon EOS 70D, 23mm, f/9, 1 sec, ISO 100, ND 8.
Lifting Fog over Gull Island, Witless Bay, Avalon Peninsula, NL Canada. September 1, 2022 (0859h), Canon EOS 70D, 34mm, f/11, 6 sec, ISO 100, ND 8.
"First Light on North America" taken at sunrise from Signal Hill (St. John's NL, Canada) looking east over the North Atlantic Ocean. August 31, 2022: Canon EOS 70D, 16mm, f/14, 4/5 sec, ISO 100.
"Fog Rolls into Dildo Harbour". On a beautiful cloudless Sunday September 4, 2022 a bank of fog rolls over the hills and settled on the harbour at Dildo. Canon EOS 70D, 25mm, f/11, 1/60 sec, ISO 100.
"Fog Rolls into Dildo Harbour". On a beautiful cloudless Sunday September 4, 2022 a bank of fog rolls over the hills and settled on the small private harbour at Dildo. Canon EOS 70D, 30mm, f/16, 1/30 sec, ISO 100.
"Lower Battery" Signal Hill (St. John's, NL, Canada). This photo was taken at the end of the docks where Southside Road meets Fort Amherst Road.
"Sunset on Chantry Island". Chantry Island was named a Federal Migratory Bird Sanctuary (1957). It is located in Lake Huron, about 1 km offshore from the town of Southampton, Ontario, was originally established to protect its gull and heron colonies. August 30, 2021 (0859h), Canon EOS 70D, 58mm, f/8, 1/125 sec, ISO 100.
"Rolling Fog in Logy Bay" at the site of the Ocean Sciences Centre (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador's cold ocean research facility). Located in Logy Bay, NL, the Centre houses laboratories where research is conducted (on organisms ranging from bacteria to seals), the North Atlantic fishery, aquaculture, oceanography, ecology, behaviour and physiology. June 1, 2018 (0859h), Canon EOS 70D, 34mm, f/3.5, 1/1600 sec, ISO 100.
"Trinity" Trinity is a small town located on the south western shore of Trinity Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador. The town contains a number of buildings. The harbour at Trinity was first used by fishing ships around the 16th century. The Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte-Real named the location "Trinity" as he arrived on Trinity Sunday, 1501 (or 1500 by other accounts). Fog is rolling in over the hills and into the bay. Taken: June 5, 2023 (1149h), Canon EOS 90D, 76mm, f9, 1/50s, ISO 100.