Adriatic Summer beach the rope team reading as

the rope team reading as a thin thread of color across the white

in the agave family

Shot from above on a crisp coastal morning

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

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 the rope team reading asBen 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