Lonely Surfer Size:Large Almost none of California's palms

Almost none of California's palms are native — the rows lining the Pacific coast were planted by Los Angeles in the early twentieth century

the fender line carrying the eye right out of frame

Evan shoots up the gentle face into the cliff

The Oceano Dunes sit on the Central Coast just south of Pismo Beach — the largest coastal dune complex in California

Lonely Surfer Size:Large Almost none of California's palmsLa Bocana is the river mouth break at the south end of Punta Roca, on the Pacific coast of El Salvador a right hander that forms on the sandbar where the Rio San Antonio meets the sea. Devon was watching from the beach with a sprained ankle the day he made this frame, camera around his neck, waiting for one surfer to drop in. The exposure is on the figure, not the wave.