Bands of different color, translucence and texture make this photo a sampler of the sea. I tried counting the different layers, but when I discovered the variations within the breaker itself I gave up. It's an image that teases the senses, with phantom impressions of ocean sounds, smells and salty tastes arise as you look. I can't think of anything with the same power to calm and center a nervous soul than the breaking surf. You've caught it at just the right light, free of glare yet white and frothy...bright droplets of spray frozen in midair...smooth breast of the beach groomed by the back slosh. An aquamarine rainbow of a shot.