"It has been a habit of mine to place small birds or animals in my paintings such as a deer family or an owl.

When working on this new painting of the full moon setting in the early morning over Carmel Beach, with the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright House overlooking the shoreline, I felt it needed something more. So, for the first time, I introduced people.

A couple is walking their dog and admiring the beauty of the moon as it slips silently toward the water at the beginning of a new day. Their presence adds a quiet human element to the scene and captures a moment many of us can relate to, of sharing the beauty of nature with someone we love." - Simon Bull