Lonely Surfer Size:Large Almost none of California's palms

Almost none of California's palms are native — the rows lining the Pacific coast were planted by Los Angeles in the early twentieth century

letting the bike blur slightly as it passed through the frame

The Olympic coast is the section of the Lower 48 most actively giving sea stacks back to the water

the fender line carrying the eye right out of frame

The Senbon Torii — "thousand torii" — at Fushimi Inari-taisha in Kyoto isn't a thousand

Lonely Surfer Size:Large Almost none of California's palmsLa Bocana is the river mouth break at the south end of Punta Roca, on the Pacific coast of El Salvador a right hander that forms on the sandbar where the Rio San Antonio meets the sea. Devon was watching from the beach with a sprained ankle the day he made this frame, camera around his neck, waiting for one surfer to drop in. The exposure is on the figure, not the wave.