On summer weekends, the town’s beaches are crowded with bathers, most of them coming from the San Diego area. I made this image from the pier so that I could shoot down on them. This high vantage point allows the viewer to enjoy these bathers as individual details. It also allows me to stress the pattern of the incoming waves that flow through most of the frame. The wave pattern provides a context that links all of these bathers, in spite of their numbers and their varying size and activity, into a coherent scene.