This image of the North Sea lapping at the shore near St. Andrews in Scotland is one of my favorite photographs because of the simplicity, the texture and the contrast of the mystical. Just a simple beach at the edge of the sea, on a planet at the edge of a modest galaxy, part of an unfathonably vast universe. These two extremes of the infinitesimally large and the small world of our consciousness, to the infinitesimally small quantum world continually fascinate and astound me. Photographs are a metaphor for this dichotomy since they capture an instant of time within the infinity of time.