Let's Go Surfin' Now

I was standing up on the Venice pier for probably an hour, sometimes looking west, and sometimes looking to the east.  Much of the time I was just watching the waves, streaming in from offshore.  I found it mesmerizing to watch the shapes of the leading edges of the waves as they broke closer to shore.  I would look at the design of the curves of the waves in the background.  That's how I happened to take this photograph - I watched the surfers head in to the water, but I was really concentrating on the shapes of the waves in the background.  This photo is about the waves, not the surfers.