I have been using the few occasions when  I go up Rosetta Head on an early morning Sunday poodlewalk with Kayla to photograph seascapes. That is what you see: the southern ocean. 

I am discovering that my  emphasis is on the clouds rather than the sea: 

I have tried a different compositional approach  ---eg., one that is more evenly balanced between cloud and sea and neither dominate the other. 

However,  I find the latter  composition more bland and  boring. Boring, tired, done is my  immediate response. And they don't look like abstractions. But they promise possibilities. 

I realise that Hiroshi Sugimoto's 8x10 black and white seascapes, which are made from a cliff often with 3 hour exposures at night, are premised on the water and air  being evenly balanced with the horizon line in the middle of the composition.  These abstract seascapes follow the  reductionist approach of  modernism-- the desire to erased everything but the most primitive  or basic  form coupled to  a primal seeing, and they  are often juxtaposed with  Mark Rothko’s late black and grey paintings.  

The long exposure means they are of “time exposed”, in the sense that they photographs that compress long expanses of time into a single frame, serving as a time capsule for a series of events. Consequently, the ocean has permanent creases rather than ripples and waves and the skies are air--cloudless skies.  Sugimoto's seascapes are a conceptual art that is also a minimalist one. His compositions are spare, his basic forms uncomplicated.

The coastal landscape west of Rosetta Head--looking towards Kings Head---  is not that interesting. This approach to a seascape  doesn't promise  much: 

Standing on Rosetta Head looking at the southern ocean is the  visual experience--of time and light in this seascape space. It is ever changing as the sun rises in different locations. Black and white works best as it  is  an abstraction of reality. But lugging large format equipment --eg., a Cambo 8x10 monorail and Linhof tripod--up and down Rosetta Head would be a real  effort. 

This location, however, is a possibility:

 This photo is from  a late afternoon photo session, and it is a location  that is worth considering for large format.