At first glance, this one is almost nothing but blue.
That's exactly why I liked it.
Early morning light was moving across the Pacific, and the longer I watched the surface, the more variation I started seeing—deep indigo, brighter blue, little flashes of warmer reflected light, small waves constantly changing the texture.
There wasn't a dramatic landmark competing for attention.
Just water.
The source file holds around 96 million pixels, so when this photograph gets large, that apparently simple field starts revealing a ridiculous amount of activity.
From across the room, it feels quiet.
Walk toward it and the ocean gets busy.
Individual waves appear. Highlights separate. Colors that first seemed almost identical start moving away from each other.
I love that reversal.
The closer you get to what looked simple, the more complicated it becomes.
What looks simple from across the room keeps moving up close.
Look Closer
In Space
See what scale changes.
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