Landscape Photo Competition 2014 No 2 : Entry Number 276

This is a lovely photograph. Your play with shadows and lines is striking, the deserted beach too. I love the volley ball nets waiting patiently. You were so close, your technique and your eye are remarkable. It was the tamed nature of this beach which brought you down for this theme.

First off, thank you! Such a pleasant surprise! I am quite new to photography. I shot this with my first camera, a Canon Rebel T3i and a Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens. Post-processing was done in Lightroom. The photo was taken in Santa Monica on an extremely windy afternoon. The beach was completely deserted, even the birds had retreated into the city, but the light was perfect, and the desolation was almost palpable, I was hoping to capture just that...