I abstracted this relaxing sea lion by waiting for him to flip over on his back and glide beneath the water. I was shooting from a pier in Newport’s harbor, which gave me the high vantage point I needed to make such abstraction possible. I put my camera on its “multiple frame” option, and just kept firing as it swept below me. In this image, only the belly, chin and one flipper are exposed. Everything else is below the rippling water. I tilted the camera so that the axis of the sea lion becomes a diagonal, giving it more thrust as it glides on by. By showing less of the sea lion, I am engaging the imaginations of those who look at this image. I ask the viewer to, in effect, become this sea lion for a moment, and savor the joy of such a relaxing activity.