I captured this photograph at Point Reyes National Seashore in central California.
This small section of the California coast is one of my favorite places on earth. One of the most striking features of the Point Reyes area is that it feels like a time capsule. This protected coastline is less than an hour's drive from San Francisco, yet the two worlds couldn't feel further apart. When you're driving through these rolling pastures, you get the sense that this place has remained largely unchanged for the last hundred years as the rest of the world modernized around it.
I'm a sucker for nostalgia, and that's probably why I find myself drawn back to this place every year or so. It's always the same and gives me that familiar feeling that I crave, yet each time the experience is slightly different.
This image is my attempt at capturing the scale of this seemingly endless coastline. When you stand in this spot, the beach sits hundreds of feet below, and stretches far into the distance. The sand is dotted by tiny specs that seem to move, and when you bring them into view with a telephoto lens you realize they are sea lions. That's when you realize just how big this place is, and that's when you begin to feel small. A feeling I find myself chasing quite often.
