Right after we got to the beach, the sun rose then quikly hid behind the approaching storm, making the dawn light looking almost threatening yet very captivating. To convey the mood, I placed the camera just 2 foot away from the anchor in the foreground, stopdowned the lens for greater DOF and put both a CPL and a 9-stop ND Filter in front of the 22mm-lens to lengthen the speed to 30". The final result is a combination of the opposites: near & far, light and dark, smooth and rough, dreamy & fiery...
