Underscoring the town’s proximity to the Pacific Ocean, a pair of dolphins swims in perpetuity upon the side of an electric utility box.
Art students from a local high school designed and executed such paintings on at least sixteen such boxes. I was drawn to this particular box because of its emphasis on the color blue – one of the primary colors, and also symbolic of both the ocean and the dolphin, which usually appears to be bluish when seen in the water. I cropped the box tightly to remove all traces of the surrounding setting. In the process, I make the dolphins appear to be more a part of the ocean itself than they would be if any of the surrounding distractions were included in my frame. However, sometimes the surrounding settings for such utility boxes might help, rather than harm, the image. See the following image for an example of such an approach.