This is the first in a series of three super wideangle images featuring the wreckage of a commercial ship that ran aground on Columbia Beach one hundred and three years ago. In this image, I create a relationship in space between the skeleton of the ship’s bow, the clouds exploding out of it, and a distant jogger who runs along the surf. The bow, exposed by the low tide, is only a few feet away, yet the 14mm focal length of my lens pushes it away as it if were yards, rather than feet, away. The runner is not that far from the lens either, but appears very small because of the 14mm optic’s way of interpreting distance. A sky full of clouds makes the image work. If the sky was empty, the image would lack the energy to express its ideas.