People

Since when are people in a landscape photograph the most important element? Especially when they are microscopically tiny, as in this image. Did you even notice them?

I guess maybe their size is the point. We see a wonderful, cloud-filled sky, and sandy flats by the bay at low tide. And there, off on the right are two tiny figures.

The scale says something. It reminds me that we humans who take ourselves so seriously, we are barely a speck on the landscape - a potentially destructive speck, a divisive speck, but a speck nonetheless.

There’s something about that I find reassuring.