I understand how the water should blur with a :30 open exposure, but it really was an open exposure. At least my guess is :30, but it could have been less if I shot it earlier in the evening, closer to sunset. But everything I shot that night was in the dark, and with open exposures. I've noticed before when shooting open exposures at night on Gulf Coast beaches that waves came out more defined than I would have expected. Alpha, could the angle of a ripple cause light to reflect from some places more than others, so that if several ripples passed the same point, the light would continue to reflect from that same place, therefore burning the reflection in the print at the same place? Several ripples passing by, reflecting light from the same place (angle), might give the appearance of a still shot. Does that make sense?