Ocean Portraits

I love photographing water and because of its ethereal and intangible nature.  It is also because of this nature that water is difficult for me to photograph.  When you leave the shutter of your lens open and just let the movement of the water be recorded in a single image the visual effect is breathtaking... when done correctly. 

Therefore, needless to say I desperately wanted to photograph the ocean when I was in Hawaii early this January.  This is the closest I've come yet to capturing the  the vision I have of water.  These photographs are definitely inspired and influenced by Svjetlana Tepavcevic whose work I recently came across (definitely check out her waves!!!).