The ocean is never still. Waves are created by energy passing through water. Waves transmit energy, not water, across the ocean and if not obstructed by anything, they have the potential to travel across an entire ocean basin. The final and often violent eruption of energy which marks the end of a wave’s journey is where this series titled ‘Ocean Art - The Study Of Waves’ has been created. Water is Planet Earth’s most essential resource, this is my effort to capture it and help preserve it forever.

Where the project was made: Australia, Hawaii, Iceland, Indonesia, Portugal, Canary Islands, Mexico

The aim of the project: "My aim is to show the ocean as a living, breathing thing. To document it in all of it’s intimidating strengths; and to bring awareness to its delicate fragility."

This project started organically in 2007, I suffered a knee injury in my old job working 1 kilometre down in an underground coal-mine. I was unable to walk or drive so with months of time to kill I started a new hobby - Photography.

My first memories in life are holding my mothers shoulders while she swam underwater, I remember opening my eyes and it seeing a different world. The ocean has been the one constant in my life. Having lost my father to suicide as a young boy, the waves are where I learned a lot of life’s lessons.

Lessons like Patience, humility, respect and how to ‘go with the flow’. The knee injury ended up being my ultimate blessing in disguise. Photography has allowed me to quit my job in the mines and pursue my lifelong passion documenting it’s beauty. I believe that this is my calling in life and it is my absolute joy to witness the natural world so.