When the morning fog blankets Mission Beach, abstract black and white imagery becomes an effective medium of expression. The key to this image is the lone figure sitting on the beach below one of its lifeguard towers. Two ghostly figures walk the through the fog in the top left corner of the frame, giving the image much of its atmosphere. There are no crisp blacks or whites in this monochromatic image – everything is gray, the very essence of fog itself. The mood creates a mysterious and lonely feeling, and expresses the point of this picture.