Our ship took us past this point of land, crowded with dozens of sea lions. I use a pair of large sea lions as bookends. One of them, a bull, seems to be riding a wave at left – he actually has commandeered his own rock. The other bookend, at far right, may be a very large cow. She takes the high ground, seeing everything that is going on below her. I organized this image around four layered horizontal bands flowing across the image. The rookery holds the foreground, the band of rocks runs through the middle, the distant tree-lined shore, along with the massive mountains, provides the backdrop. (Our ship could only linger off shore for a few minutes. I would have liked to have stayed longer, and my wish came true four days later, when I was taken back for a longer shoot, at much closer range, as part of my four day stay at a remote fishing camp within a half hour of this rookery. You can see the images I made here during that shoot later in this gallery.)