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Low Tide

Frisian landscape checklist:

- flat.... CHECK

- muddy... CHECK

- empty... CHECK

- grey... CHECK

- salty smell... CHECK (well, at least in my mind)

- boring... NO WAY

 

Nowadays landscape photographers prefer to shoot from high mountains with spectacular light and some eye catcher in the foreground. It has become sort of an unspoken rule, just like the rule of thirds. And they come up with good shots.

 

With this shot I deliberatly go against the grain. It shows what I like about the frisian wadden sea landscape. There's no excitement, no hectic hustle and bustle, no spectacular eye catcher to be beheld. To me, the emptiness always conveys a sense of peace and freedom. So, take a moment to sit back, let it soak in, calm down, breathe.... and smell the salty air.

 

Enjoy!

 

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Uploaded on July 24, 2015
Taken on July 8, 2015