Adriatic Summer beach Crescent Bay is the small

Crescent Bay is the small cove at the north end of Laguna Beach — a few hundred yards of sand wrapped in sandstone bluffs and palms

Shot from above on a crisp coastal morning

Bigger storms make the color bolder

and gave the islands their quietest portrait

hunting fish at the ice edge

Adriatic Summer beach Crescent Bay is the smallBen shot this in 2023 from a vantage above one of Dubrovnik's pebble coves, where the Adriatic runs clear enough to read the seabed in five feet of water. The Croatian coast keeps a particular kind of summer rhythm parasols rented by the hour, lunch stretching past three, the swim breaks getting shorter as the afternoon warms. Pebble beaches sit at the foot of the karst cliffs that ring the city, the white stone bouncing light back into the water. Ben