Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 4.
Image: One of my digital "paintings" of a Pacific wave crashing against the sandstone bluffs of Shore Acres near Coos Bay, Oregon was a photograph I took transformed with Topaz Impression using the Van Gogh II preset with customized adjustments. To create the flecks of foam I shortened the stroke width. I also adjusted the orange, yellow and green channels and decreased the contrast significantly to make the shape of the wave more visible. I added a slight vignette, then in Photoshop removed some of the flecks around the edges using a healing brush.
Although I was positioned dozens of feet from the ocean below, shortly after this photograph was taken I was almost swept away by a towering rogue wave that crested the rock I was on. Another photographer friend grabbed my arm and we braced ourselves hunching over to protect our camera gear, a very close call!
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