Pescadero, CA, 2014.
All the pixels, each made of a grain of sand, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14832380095
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Captured with a small full-frame camera and 21mm lens. A three second exposure smoothed waves and surf.
This was an exercise in tone, perspective, and convergence. The four major boundaries of the scene converge (approximately) near the center of the frame, forming a flattened X.
I moved around and composed this both with and without the driftwood in foreground, which interrupts the composition but, I decided, is helpful to anchor the frame.
The metadata for this image claims it was shot at f/16. That's wrong; it was more like f/2.5 or so. This was an artifact of the too-clever-by-half way Leica M cameras estimate the f stop. There's no mechanical link between the aperture ring and the camera body, so instead they estimate the f-stop with a separate light sensor that's compared with the brightness of the recorded image. This works reasonably well, except when you use an ND filter (as here), which confuses it to no end.
@mattblaze@federate.social Remarkable Leica would let that slide. Easy to imagine the engineers rolling their eyes as the product managers say "Ship it!".
I see the impassible framing of left and right with the paths in the sand holding some implied meaning to ponder, meaning instantiated by the driftwood. Like what does it mean to take, what one perceives as, a path less traveled.