The La Jolla peninsula and a sky full of pink clouds provide a picturesque backdrop for this shot of Mission Beach at day’s end.
There were twelve people randomly passing through my frame at this moment, yet they seamlessly combine to present a casually relaxed mood. The position of the water is critical – a wave divides the ocean into two fields, one blue, the other pink. The wave also separates a lone surfer from the other eleven people. This surfer creates an incongruity in scale. The section of water between the wave and the sand offers a relatively smooth surface that clearly defines the small, silhouetted figures. The three small children within this group add still another form of scale incongruity.