This boy was at Chapoquoit beach with another boy (his brother?) and an older man I assumed was his grandfather. After photographing them for a while I asked what kind of fish they were trying to catch. "Bluefish and Stripers" replied the grandfather.
This shot was taken at 1/400th of a second, which was fast enough to freeze the action of the boy while giving the fishing rod a nice motion blur.
You might think it is a boring picture, but where else, besides Earth, could I have taken it?
It is a moment in the life of a boy at a beach on a small planet orbiting a single star in one of billions of galaxies in what might be one of many universes. Was something similar happening at the same time somewhere else in our galaxy? Our universe? Another Universe? Maybe. Maybe not.
Earth is a planet with beaches, people, bluefish and stripers. Humans have searched the skies for centuries but haven't yet found another planet like this one. Earth is special. It's a keeper. We should take note.
Monte