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My book, Reading the Sea, and prints of Arkyla's photographs made to order by Fine Art America.
The Book
My first book, in print.
Reading the Sea
Learning to Photograph a Life Afloat
Most sailing photographs promise the same thing: a heeled hull, spray off the bow, a perfect sky. This book is interested in everything that idea leaves out.
Reading the Sea follows Arkyla, a 45-foot Swedish-built bluewater cruiser, and the years of learning that led to her captain crossing an ocean in her — through the Mediterranean, the Canaries, and Cape Verde to the Caribbean, and home again by way of the Azores. Along the way: an electrical storm off Salcombe with the camera left below, because some moments are worth surviving rather than shooting; a mid-Atlantic whale strike and eight hundred improvised miles to landfall; a becalmed afternoon four kilometres above the seafloor and six hundred miles from anywhere; and the long, unphotogenic stretches in between that make up most of what a passage actually is.
Told through story rather than settings, and organised by theme rather than itinerary, this is a book about learning to see — and about the discipline of choosing, afterward, which photographs actually deserve to survive the edit.
Prints
Sailing photographs, printed to order.
Sailing Photography Collection
Fine art prints from the logs
Photographs from Arkyla's passages, printed, framed and shipped by Fine Art America in a range of sizes, papers and finishes.