Waves and feeling

Photographs of waves can be fun but also difficult.  

First choose if you want it to feel intimate or awesome.  If you provide very little horizon, you create more of a feeling of closeness or intimateness.  If you provide additional horizon space, you begin to show the size or openness of the image.

Capturing the waves themselves is a choice.  If you set the shutter speed high, you capture the action.  If you slow the shutter speed, you get more blur or movement.  Most photos that I have seen like this also look more calming.

Another consideration for the waves is to have them in the 'right' position.  It is nicer to not have a wave partially cut off.  It has a feeling of 'flowing out' of the picture.  This effect is similar to cutting a person off at a limb.