I was focusing on a young boy, slowly carrying a belly-board into heavy surf. The board looked as large as he was. My first idea was a very simple one – I wanted to make an incongruous photo of a belly-board wading into the sea, with only the hands of the boy showing. I had made several attempts at this amusing abstraction when suddenly a seagull swooped into my frame. It seemed headed directly at the boy with the belly-board. I caught it just as its outstretched curving wings echoed the curves of the board itself. The bird, the boy, and the board become partners here. They produce two ideas working side by side – the incongruous pairing of board and boy, plus the simultaneous incongruous pairing of the bird’s wings and the board’s curves.