When the tide retreats, another landscape appears.
Pools of seawater remain between the rocks, reflecting the changing sky and revealing a world that spends much of its life beneath the Atlantic. Green, stone and water briefly share the same surface — until the ocean returns and redraws everything again.
A landscape shaped twice a day by the sea.
Ericeira, Portugal
The twice-daily redraw is what makes this feel patient, not static. You're watching something that refuses permanence, and the composition trusts that. The green against stone works because nothing's trying to hold still.
Exactly. That constant change is one of the things I love most about photographing this coast. You can return to the same place only a few hours later and find a completely different landscape. I’m glad you noticed the green against the stone too — that contrast was one of the things that caught my eye.
Pools holding sky. That's the whole poem right there, the way what's left behind becomes its own temporary world, not just absence. I keep thinking about the twice-daily redraw, how nothing in that landscape gets to settle.
I love the way you put that — a temporary world rather than simply what the sea leaves behind. That is exactly what fascinates me about these pools: for a few hours they seem to become their own little landscapes, and then the Atlantic returns and everything changes again.