At this crêpe stand, everyone goes home happy.

French girls flirting with a Spanish boy in a resort town on the Costa Brava.

I’m a people photographer more than anything else, and macro photography of plants and bugs and stuff has never really caught my attention. But I’ll try anything once.

I think these were French kids on vacation in Spain at L’Escala, one of those summer-house towns on the Costa Brava in between Barcelona and the French border. Tourists from France were there en masse on holiday, and though we couldn’t find a supermarket anywhere near the center, there was at least one real estate agency on every corner.

This photo was taken in the afternoon (hence the hard shadows) on the boardwalk of Riells Beach.

I was walking in the paths that run behind the beach in L’Escala taking landscape photos of the weird pine trees they have there when this girl crossed my path in a hurry to get suntan lotion to her poor mother roasting on the beach. Having trained as a street photographer in Barcelona, I focused my camera with a gunslinger’s speed and caught this surreal shot.

Note the girl doing a handstand in the background.