This image speaks of departures. A group of surfers carry a heavy board home from the sea at day’s end, while the sun itself barely still hangs in the sky. In a few moments, both these surfers and the sun will vanish, and so will the colors that gild the sea and splash the sky with orange and yellow light. I silhouette these surfers against a setting sun, creating an abstraction that emphasizes the effort of their legs, frozen in time. Meanwhile, the sun burns a white-hot hole into the image, while creating a mysterious yellow halo effect within the orange sky.