08/22/2026
I took this shot from the beach of Huntington Beach β the columns of the pier framed behind him, whitewater, board flying through the air.
What stuck with me wasn't the just the surfer, it was also columns. That row of dark pillars standing against all that blue green water looked like something off an old travel poster, and I kept coming back to the framing.
So same pillars. Same wave. Same weightless half-second at the top of the turn β except this time the sun dropped down behind it, and the guy on the board who never paddled back in.ππ
Printed big across the back of a Comfort Colors 1717 β the heavyweight, garment-dyed kind that feels broken in the day it shows up. Nine colors, Sβ4XL, plus a little skull-in-a-Hawaiian-shirt emblem on the left chest.
π https://seawhatididthere.etsy.com/listing/4558056044/old-salt-skeleton-surfer-t-shirt-retro
First photo is mine, straight out of the camera. Second one is where it ended up.