Lake Erie is in the most southern part of Ontario.

It's the smallest of the Great Lakes.

As far as the depth goes, it's the shallowest by far.

Being a, a large lake but, but relatively shallow compared to the other Great Lakes,

creates unique wave conditions.

The waves on Lake Erie tend to be closer together,

with a lot more of the violence on the white water on top.

There's a lot of people that have lost their lives on Lake Erie.

There 's been estimated somewhere over 8, 000 shipwrecks on Lake Erie over the years.

At her worst, Lake Erie can be murderous.

In fact, when she's murderous we call her a widow maker.

To be a nature photographer,

I think that one of the number one things you have to have is patience.

The first wave photo that I posted from Lake Erie,

I came home that night and I posted an image and

right away the number of comments on it, it was crazy compared to what I normally would get,

and the number of " likes ".

If I know I 'm going in the water,

it starts from like the moment I wake up in the morning.

There's a lot of mental preparation, there is an adrenaline rush too, for sure.

Like I have no idea how things are going to unfold.

It's before the sun 's even coming up and you can see the water in the distance

and those waves exploding into the air and it's it's just such a cool rush.

The window of opportunity to photograph the Lakes for, for me is

generally from maybe mid October through early December.

It's the best time of the year when you still have that warm air masses that are around this region,

and then those cold air masses that are coming from up north that give you these really prime conditions.

Obviously weather changes and it 's constantly changing.

The biggest factor is wind speed and wind direction.

A southwest wind is the best and minimal wind speeds,

I 'm usually looking at around 30 miles an hour, at the bare minimum.

At the high end of it, you 're actually getting the Category One Hurricane level winds,

over 70 miles an hour.

It's a crazy mass of water and that's when you 're getting these waves

that are upwards of 30 feet.

The tough thing about lake waves is it's not like ocean waves

where you have sets that come in and then there's a bit of a lull.

Lake waves are constantly pounding.

You know, you virtually have like two seconds, two and a half seconds between each wave

and where I'm at it's more like a giant washing machine.

It's not easy.

You're kind of cold after a while too.

That water is only around the 50 degree mark.

There's days where there's ice in the water and you're literally,

like " What am I doing?"

Water 's very powerful, it's very deceiving and, and you have to have great respect for it.

You can get pulled under and pulled out with a rip current.

It's obviously a lot stronger than you are.

You have to know your limitations and, and know when to say when.

The waves that are generated from this refraction off the pier,

those are the waves that I 'm photographing

that, where you have, you know, two masses of water,

two waves that are moving in, in opposite directions that are meeting and colliding

and they actually they 'll hit, and they twist and they turn,

and, and it's, it's a phenomenal thing to see.

It 's just building this massive liquid mountain that literally lasts all of like a second, if that.

you know, sometimes it's, it's a fraction of a moment in time.

That's one of the things that I love, is the challenge of capturing that moment.