Adriatic Summer beach is what a working surf

is what a working surf town looked like before they were cleaned up — wide brown sand

Bigger storms make the color bolder

200 feet above the Chilean Patagonian steppe — vertical walls of granite intruded into older sedimentary rock about 12 million years ago

Shot from above on a crisp coastal morning

Crescent Bay is the small cove at the north end of Laguna Beach — a few hundred yards of sand wrapped in sandstone bluffs and palms

Adriatic Summer beach is what a working surfBen shot this in 2023 from a vantage above one of Dubrovnik's pebble coves, where the Adriatic runs clear enough to read the seabed in five feet of water. The Croatian coast keeps a particular kind of summer rhythm parasols rented by the hour, lunch stretching past three, the swim breaks getting shorter as the afternoon warms. Pebble beaches sit at the foot of the karst cliffs that ring the city, the white stone bouncing light back into the water. Ben