This is the last of 3 paintings I did in the same spot at a Cape Canaveral beach. I was on a narrow peninsula that swung around and continued on. In a way, painting is all about how you organize visual information. Painting plein air, under the clock, can be confusing with a million lights, mid-tones, and darks flung all over the place, and changing every few minutes.   For example, the bright reflection on the right was slowly moving across the water. To keep calm under the gun, I sought out what would be my main compositional focus.  The line of the bushes and how it wraps around and goes behind the bright light was my focus. If you think of a marble of light nestled in a hoop laid on the ground, that would be my abstract symbol. Keeping the abstract sweep of the hoop helped me keep my focus on what tonal values to accent. Though this painting seems natural enough, it is one of my most abstract works.