After several of days of wet, foggy, overcast weather, the sun finally popped out today and so did the wind, gusting up to 40 mph.  With this much wind I wanted to experiment using long exposures on large bodies of water.  I headed to Mason Neck state park along Belmont Bay to see if I could make some long exposures.  The wind along the bay was so powerful, I had a lot of difficulty keeping my camera steady during the long exposures, so I decided to change my plan and work on composition.  Repeating patterns are a good compositional style.  The photo above shows the incoming wave mimicking the line of debris along the beach.  This photo was one of many that I took in this exact location looking for the best water pattern.

Another compositional  style is the inclusion of leading lines in your photograph to help the eye move through the frame. This is what I tried to capture below with the sand patterns leading out to the bay and sky in the background.