Most people experience the ocean from the shore – watching it from a distance, taking in the waves, the horizon, and the changing light.

For me, some of my most meaningful moments happen from within it.

A lot of my work is created while floating in the water with my camera – sometimes waist deep, sometimes completely immersed, often alone, and usually chasing light that only lasts for a few  moments before it disappears again.

Shooting this way changes everything. The ocean stops feeling like something I’m looking at from a distance and becomes something I’m part of. I notice the movement of the surface, the shifting reflections, the way light bends and dissolves across the water. Even familiar places begin to feel different from sea level.

Perhaps that’s why I’m not usually trying to document the ocean exactly as it looks, and why I’m more interested in capturing the way it feels – calm, atmospheric, constantly changing, and sometimes almost dreamlike.

Some days the conditions align perfectly. Soft light settles across the surface and everything slows down for a moment. Other times, nothing works the way I imagined.

The ocean is unpredictable, and that uncertainty is part of why I keep coming back.