From my rocky perch jutting out into the ocean near Sculptured Beach, I played with photographing the waves as the sun set. This tripod-mounted 1/4 of a second exposure caught the abstract expression of a wave crashing, while retaining some literal relationship to the play of warm light on the wave against the cool blue of the surrounding ocean.
[300mm in 35mm terms, 1/4 of a second and f/22 at ISO 100, tripod mounted.]
Some related images: Wave (after Hokusai), Breaking Wave, Wave Tangent.