I was visiting Filey Brigg with my brother in law who was looking at the rocks. It was a wild day with a strong nithering northerly blowing. There was lots of foam blown onto the Brigg which I tried to photograph with little success.
On the way back from the point I noticed Scarborough Castle in the misty distance with heavy surf breaking on the rocks. With a bit of positioning on the slippery rocks, I got to a spot with an interesting foreground and waited for the biggest waves. I took an exposure reading of the whitest part of the first wave using spot exposure and locked it. This prevented over exposure and "whiteout" of the wave. Detail here was a necessity.
I was then free to take a number of shots of various waves as they burst upon the rocks. This was the best image for position and size of wave relative to the castle and overall composition.
It is always thrilling to get an unexpected image which has excellent potential to develop into a competition class photograph.
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