A rainy morning in Tahiti, while whale season was coming to an end.

This wasn't just any morning to be honest... It was my 40th birthday! As we were sailing along the Tahitian coasts looking for whales, I had the time to think.

It is strange that life depends on a multitude of minor choices. How many of them drove me to capture this image?

Growing up by the ocean led me to live in Tahiti. Being there led me to be obsessed with photography... and many other minor life choices led me to this morning, being right in front of this whale breaching, and capturing it. Any choices I've ever made led me to be there, at this instant, witnessing this majestic animal.

Have I made one different choice along the way, I could have been anywhere else in the world, doing something else, even being someone very different from who I am now.

I couldn't have asked for more that day. I understood for somewhere along my life path, I've made some good choices.