This young athlete is using the boardwalk wall as a base for her stretching exercises. As she pulls on a leg, she looks out to sea, bathed in the warm evening light. She never notices the softly focused man standing behind her, only a few feet away. He is a scavenger, combing the boardwalk and its trash barrels, looking for refuse that he can later exchange for cash. Using a 350mm telephoto lens, I was able to bring them together in this moment, expressing a series of opposite ideas: differing ages, genders, activity, and goals, contrasted in sharp vs. soft definition. They never noticed or acknowledged each others presence.
