Clayton Cotterell, Photographer, Portland

Description

An overhead aerial photograph captures two people swimming on their backs in deep blue ocean water. Sunlight glints brightly on the water surface in the upper left corner, casting a brilliant highlight. The water transitions from a deep sapphire blue on the left to clearer turquoise shallows with visible rocky bottom detail on the right. Both swimmers create gentle ripples and white splashes around them as they float. The high-angle perspective emphasizes the vast expanse of the sea.