I combine two elements to express a celebratory mood in this sunset photograph. The cloud layer lifts at day’s end, permitting the setting sun to break through it with a showering of golden rays upon the sea. The diagonal rays echo the upraised arms of a young boy as he hails the end of a day’s play with his friend at the water’s edge. The scale contrast between the vast ocean, the dazzling sunset, and the tiny silhouettes in the surf takes the measure of man and compares it to the overwhelming presence of nature itself.