Impending | Kelly O'Leary

"I captured this dynamic image on an unbearably sultry July evening in 2022. The summer season in Florida ensures late afternoon storms will roll in like clockwork and a calculated dance of humans will ensue, dodging the abrupt onset of impending showers. The beauty of this phenomenon is dark, tumultuous skies filled with an abundance of voluminous clouds, and a brisk, enthusiastic incoming tide. This is the very time I set out with my gear, the time in which the sea is most animated and skies most dramatic, ideal subject matter. It’s an exhilarating atmosphere where a pulse is felt in the air and a vibration in the soul. It’s a time to turn inward, to reflect, to just be. I sit and I wait. I wait for moments like these where the white froth of the sea dramatically collides into the rocks under a gentle gift of light spilling from between the clouds."
~Kelly O'Leary