FOAMIES, FLARES, AND MORE
Throughout Jason's journey of discovering what he enjoyed most about photographing waves, his focus began to capture the abstractions of moving water. Between 'Foamies', flares, panning shutter drags, and water texture shots, Jason began to explore new perspectives in which he could create fine art with the abstract waves he'd found. "Foamies," as Jason calls them, is the foam from a breaking wave that eventually makes its way up the beach and hits a berm causing the foam to fly up and create wildly different formations each time.
"I love photographing 'Foamies' so much, it's all a crapshoot, you never know what you're going to get. You'll always get something different, and no foamies will ever look the same. But what I enjoy most is my audience's interpretations of what they see in them."
Jason has spent years trying to perfect the way he captures foamies, experimenting with different lighting and even bringing in his own artificial lights. Another major focus in Jason's work is
" flares " resulting from a wave breaking, hitting a wall, jetty, or steep shoreline, and then returning back out to the ocean where it collides with an oncoming wave.
"Flares hold a very special place in my heart; they're often hard to find because they require just the right tide, swell, and sandbar. So many times, I've gone to a location expecting to capture them, and to my dismay, the tide isn't high/low enough, or the sand hasn't built up correctly, or the swell just doesn't arrive as expected. It can be very frustrating returning over and over again or spending an entire day waiting in hopes of capturing the perfect flares and never seeing them.
All this makes capturing these types of photos so much more rewarding when you finally arrive, camera- ready, and the flares are finally happening." - Jason Fenmore
Even with all these kinds of waves, Jason still yearned for more, whether it was capturing the perfect sunset on silky glass ocean surfaces or playful dolphins enjoying a morning swim as the sun came up. Over the years, Jason has tried to cover every aspect of wave photography and continues to push to find something new, but not a day goes by where he doesn't find himself back in the water in his hometown of Newport Beach in search of the perfect wave, with the most vibrant sunrise.