In color, this image highlights the dead white Cypress trees as they contrast to green canopy around them. By changing the medium to black and white, the green vanishes, and the dead Cypresses seem to join the forest, rather than stand out from it. The merging of live and dead trees, flung upon the ancient rocky shoreline, speaks of replacement – as a tree dies, another grows to take its place. Yet the ghosts of the past always remain with us as a reminder of mortality, as well as the life cycle itself.