Seascape

seascape is a, painting, or other work of art which depicts the sea, in other words an example of marine art. By a backwards development, the word has also come to mean the view of the sea itself, and be applied in planning contexts to geographical locations possessing a good view of the sea. Wikipedia

A seascape in photography is rarely about the sea, and the frame is almost never only the sea. Go to the ocean shore, go to the Mediterranean beaches; up with your head look ahead. What do you see? A dark blue sea, all empty until it reaches the sky! What does it make you feel? Do you feel immortal, do you feel lonely, do you feel unreachable? Are you sad or happy?

Now, bow your head and include the sands of the beach in your view. Add a few rocks and person; or a couple perhaps. What changes; what makes you feel different?

There is an advertisement campaign saying the best thing ever can happen to you is a blank page, because it makes you think - it makes you get creative.

The sea is the same - all blank, all soothing. You cannot resist event the first thought that enters into your mind. The sea turns into something else and therefore in your imagination it can not be left to all itself. Everytime you look at the sea, you feel the need to attach it to something else. That's proably why you see only a handful seascape where sea is the real and the only subject in the frame. Most of the time an empty seascape means an empty / free mind; it is the nirvana. But we never tend to achieve the nirvana, we are happier with dramatic suffocation through our thoughts.