Reproductive males will fast throughout the breeding season, often without entering the water for more than two months. Yet at one point during our half hour shoot, a bull momentarily abandoned the rookery, while all of the pups and cows in its territory followed him into the water. In this image, I caught the bull looking towards the rookery, his entourage lined up behind him. I structure the image as a series of horizontal layers, starting with the sea lions in the foreground, and then moving to the stretch of rocks behind them, and finally to the snowcapped mountains in the background. It was sight I had never seen before.