Last month, photographer Kirsten Hutton was standing on the Manhattan Beach Pier during what what she calls "just a typical weekend at the beach."
"I was drawn to how tiny and insignificant everyone on the sand looked - dwarfed by the beauty of nature," she said.
The image was taken with an iPhone 6 Plus and later edited with the application, VSCOcam.
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