Seascape nominee

This photograph was taken in Wollongong, south of Sydney in Australia. The waves were big that day, but this wave seemed out of all proportion to the others. I like to think that, as a friend of mine put it, this photo conveys a sense of the intense drama of the wave in question.

I take photos mostly of nature in my area, the Illawarra, south of Sydney in Australia. There's an incredible variety of ecosystems in this area – from subtropical rainforests to heaths, for example, from coastal zones to upland swamps – so there is always lots to photograph. Many of these ecosystems are under threat, though, so I hope that my photographs can play a role in their preservation.