This shot was taken off the Venice Beach pier in Marina del Rey.  We had been driving all over LA that day and decided to head to the beach for dinner and a swim.  After dinner  we headed out on the pier to watch the sun go down.  Venice attracks many body surfers and boogy-boarders, these were just a few in the water that night.

June 19th, 2008.  I spent the afternoon in an air conditioned coffee house in Provincetown giving my sun-burned body a rest.  At 5pm I decided to take a 'short' walk on the jetty off the west end of town.  That 'short' walk turned out to be two and a half hours as I walked all the way out the jetty, then all the way down the Herring Cove beach and back across the  marshes.  Along the way I passed one person and many interesting sites.  This was one of them.  The park service, as Herring Cove is administered by the National Park Service, places large plastic containers every 1000 yards or so along the beach to collect trash and other 'drift' material.  The colors seemed right, as everything else had and would continue to that day. 

I shot this in San Francisco near the Sutro Baths.  The light was perfect that day and every shot I took seemed to come out beautifully.  I don't know who this woman was, but I'm glad she happened to take a stroll through the waves at just the right time.