In the final days of 2010, I moved out to Los Angeles with my girlfriend, Sara. She was going to be studying at UCLA, but I, however, had nothing waiting for me; no job, no friends, no family. All I could count on was her... and the weather.

On one of those typically beautiful LA days we decided to walk by the coast in Santa Monica. This picture was taken just off Ocean Drive, in a spot where so many people spend their time staring out over the cliff and the beach toward the horizon. Instead, I decided to look up, and found something just as beautiful and interesting. I  felt such a rush of optimism from seeing such large living things reaching toward infinity.

The sky is not their limit.

Coincidentally, after two months of searching, I landed a job in Santa Monica, not too far away from these very trees.