Like many artists, photographer Matt Burgess stumbled on his niche by accident. His love for photography took him to the ocean, where he first started snapping surfers off Australia’s beaches. What he soon found while training his lenses on humans riding the waves was that the waves themselves, finishing their journey ashore, were more interesting than their riders. “The thing that fascinates me most about the ocean is that it’s never the same … no wave or moment will ever be repeated,” Burgess told The Epoch Times. “You are getting front row tickets to a once in a lifetime show—and what’s even better, it costs nothing!” As the photographer—from the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, on the southern tip of Australia—started spending more time shooting waves, the formless, flowing H2O began to take on a life of its own—expressing its beauty through its ever-changing shape. Besides the classic “tunnel wave,” Burgess started …