Island Window

This image means a lot to me. The first few days of my trip I was struggling to see the beauty everyone was speaking about. All the landscapes felt similar and the day to day life way too familiar to what I knew at home In Australia. I was worried that this collection would not happen and that I had been over ambitious in even thinking I could pull something like this off.  

The day I shot this image everything changed - Everything became surrounded in beauty and grace the days after falling victim to a few nasty reef cuts and beatings from the ocean.  It was a reminder of how limited the time was I had there. Something I needed to pull me out of the slump I was in and as I looked back at the islands surrounded in blue I shot the wave crystallized as an “Island Window”  seeing Tahiti from behind the barrel of a crashing wave.