Point Reyes National Seashore is a 70,000-acre nature preserve in Marin County, 30 miles north of San Francisco. It is home to whales, elephant seals, elk, raptors and shorebirds. This view is from the Point Reyes lighthouse. This sweeping vista vanishes into nothingness as the distant fog obscures both land and sea in the far distance. The repeating horizontal thrusts of the waves energize the image. They play against the vertical thrust of the beach and the hills at right. The beach becomes negative space filled with tension. Meanwhile, the blue and white of the sea contrasts to the dull brown and green beach and hills.