A bag of Doritos almost always guarantees a flock of seagulls, so all that remained was to have the two girls on either side of the central figure jump, arms outstretched, on the count of three—and jump they did. Handholding my camera and 24–85mm lens, I chose to tilt the camera up a bit while seated in a baseball catcher’s stance and fired off a number of frames. The moderate wide-angle, coupled with a low horizon line, assured me of getting a large canvas above the horizon filled with flying gulls and “flying” youth, all silhouetted against the sunset sky.

Nikon D300S with Nikkor 24–85mm lens, f/11 for 1/500 sec., ISO 200