Paying Attention ocean rise like columns in a

rise like columns in a living cathedral

Surfrider Beach was named the first World Surfing Reserve in the United States in 2010

The pastel is the marine layer doing its work: a low band of cloud over the cold California current that diffuses and warms the dropping sun

Late evening off the coast of San Diego — the sea glassed off

Paying Attention ocean rise like columns in aSan Clemente's beaches sit next door to Lower Trestles, the right hand cobblestone wave that's been the venue for the WSL Finals and the spot where the best surfers in the world tend to be visible from the sand on any given afternoon. Devon caught a frame where one of them is throwing a huge air in the background and a small kid in the foreground is entirely focused on his own piece of sand. Both of them are doing exactly what they came for.