I attended an Advanced Landscape Photography Workshop over the weekend, and we spent some time on these rocks. Given I had my Lee Big Stopper 10 stop filter with me, I decided to take it for a spin as the waves were coming well up over the rocks and swirling around nicely.
This was a 13 second exposure, late afternoon in partial shade. The rocks were covered in tiny mussels or similar shellfish which is all the black spots in the foreground. Edited in LR to a BW conversion.
I wanted to have a little more texture and a little less foamy smoke effect but I quite like how it came out in the end. I do like how the swirls around the rocks lead your eye up the center of the image.
I crunched the blacks a tad in post processing, but I liked the touch of drama it added so left it in.
What do you think? Is this style of long exposure done to death already or do you like it?
Learning to See Light 
I do like it, but might I say, I would prefer it cropped to the horizon line, remove the distracting sky and part of a hill…… 😀
Thanks Sue, I looked at that but left it in as it gave proper context and scale to the image
Fair enough! 😊
I love it – actually I prefer to have the top part on as it shows where it is. Great work. I would love to experiment with long exposures – one day.
Thanks Raewyn, yes long exp are lots of fun but you do need to invest in the right filter
wow, I love the detail in the front, I could not see all that detail in Facebook……….I hate it when FB does that; I liked it before, but it is super cool now, before the rocks were so much darker.