"SALT LINE" - Newport Beach, CA

Captured from above on a quiet, moody day in Newport Beach, this frame explores the contrast between chaos and calm. I leaned into a high-contrast monochrome grade to strip away distraction and emphasize texture—just water, foam, and sand, rendered as light and dark. The sea becomes abstract here. The darker tones on the left give weight to the composition, while the right, with its grainy black sand, feels vast and empty—like a blank page. I waited for this particular wave, one that peeled diagonally rather than head-on, to break the perfect line across the frame. The goal was to make the shoreline feel infinite, like it could be anywhere—or nowhere.