I found this young man seated on a concrete bunker separating the beach from a park adjacent to the Imperial Beach pier. I began to photograph him from a distance and when he noticed that I was making pictures of him, he spontaneously sprang to his feet, threw his body into the air, and somersaulted into the sand behind the wall. I caught him just as he planted one foot on the wall, and threw the other into the air to begin the somersault. Meanwhile, a pigeon resting on the wall next to him did not move a feather. The late afternoon sun throws most of his body into shadow, abstracting him just as it abstracts the massive bunker below him. The entire image comes together a coherent composition as the pair of railings leading down to the sand rhythmically repeats the flow of his thrusting arms, and his planted leg completes the vertical thrust of the corner of the bunker under his foot.