In "Bicycle Rack, Huntington Beach," Glen Wilbert photographs five surfboards standing upright in the sand, spaced evenly across the frame in yellow, red, white, green, and pink, with the flat beach, a low wall, the ocean, and a distant lifeguard tower behind them.
The composition is built on repetition and spacing: five vertical boards lined up like marks across a horizontal field, each a different color against the pale sand and sky. Glen shot the scene head-on and from a distance, flattening it into clean horizontal bands, sand, wall, beach, sea, sky, interrupted by the upright boards. The palette is soft and sun-washed, the colors muted rather than saturated, which is characteristic of his pastel coastal work.
Huntington Beach, on the Southern California coast, is known as Surf City and is a recurring location in Glen's beach photographs. The boards' even spacing gives an everyday beach scene the ordered, deliberate quality of a designed composition.
A study in pastel tones and clean spacing, where the California coast is reduced to color and interval.
Awards and Recognition
Glen Wilbert's work has earned national recognition, including First Place at the 2024 iPhone Photography Awards, multiple Gold Medals at the reFocus Awards, and selection for more than thirty juried exhibitions across the United States.
Details
• Framed canvas print, pine wood frame with a floating-frame effect
• Frame thickness: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
• Canvas weight: approximately 344 g/m2
• White frame with a white inner border around the canvas
• Open back, rubber corner pads, hanging hardware attached
• Printed and framed in the USA
In "Bicycle Rack, Huntington Beach," Glen Wilbert photographs five surfboards standing upright in the sand, spaced evenly across the frame in yellow, red, white, green, and pink, with the flat beach, a low wall, the ocean, and a distant lifeguard tower behind them.
The composition is built on repetition and spacing: five vertical boards lined up like marks across a horizontal field, each a different color against the pale sand and sky. Glen shot the scene head-on and from a distance, flattening it into clean horizontal bands, sand, wall, beach, sea, sky, interrupted by the upright boards. The palette is soft and sun-washed, the colors muted rather than saturated, which is characteristic of his pastel coastal work.
Huntington Beach, on the Southern California coast, is known as Surf City and is a recurring location in Glen's beach photographs. The boards' even spacing gives an everyday beach scene the ordered, deliberate quality of a designed composition.
A study in pastel tones and clean spacing, where the California coast is reduced to color and interval.
Awards and Recognition
Glen Wilbert's work has earned national recognition, including First Place at the 2024 iPhone Photography Awards, multiple Gold Medals at the reFocus Awards, and selection for more than thirty juried exhibitions across the United States.
Details
• Framed canvas print, pine wood frame with a floating-frame effect
• Frame thickness: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
• Canvas weight: approximately 344 g/m2
• White frame with a white inner border around the canvas
• Open back, rubber corner pads, hanging hardware attached
• Printed and framed in the USA
