Fire

A circular fisheye takes in nearly everything in front of the port and bends it into a disc. What fills the disc is Browning Wall: anemones, sponges and soft corals stacked from the surface down, fed by the tide that runs through the pass twice a day.

Cold water carries particulate, and lighting it flat makes it snow. The habit that flattens most cold-water pictures is two strobes at nine and three, evenly powered.

This frame put one strobe at twelve o'clock a stop up and one at four o'clock two stops down, as a fill. The result is a wall with texture, and a green sea behind it that still reads as sea. Hurst Island, British Columbia.