As I watched the tide run out from high on the ramparts of the walled city of St. Malo, I noticed three beachcombers bearing buckets heading out to reap the bounty of the sea. I was focusing on them when two children came dashing into the bottom of my frame, chasing each other in another direction. I pressed the shutter release and 1/1000th of a second later I had snatched this moment out of time and space and preserved it for you. This image is rich in juxtapositions – the beachcombers stride away from us with stately precision, while the kids sprint across the frame in frantic haste. Yet both groups are connected by the rippling layer of shallow sea water that still coats the sand. Although neither group seems conscious of the other, they will be forever linked in this eye-blink in time