Why I shoot the same coast every year
Returning to one stretch of shoreline, season after season, has taught me more than any new location ever could.
There’s a forty-minute drive of coast south of where I live that I’ve photographed every year since 2019. People ask why I don’t go somewhere new. I have it backwards from them: the newness is the problem.
When you know a place, you stop photographing the obvious thing. The dramatic headland everyone shoots becomes boring, and you start noticing the small weather — the morning the fog sits exactly at the waterline, the one week the light comes in low from the south.
Familiarity isn’t the enemy of seeing. It’s the beginning of it.
