When Sutton Lynch was 12 his parents bought him a camera and he began taking photographs of landscapes.
He lived in the Hamptons where the landscape was rather dull, in his opinion, particularly during the autumn and winter when the beaches and towns emptied of people.
Then all of a sudden, the scenery became more lively. Humpback whales began bursting out of the water not far from the beach. Dolphins appeared in the waves. Spinner sharks spiralled upwards beneath shoals of fish and shot twirling into the air.
Lynch became the chronicler of this extraordinary revival of wild ocean life on the genteel shores of the Hamptons, New York.
It began after the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission imposed limits on the fishing of menhaden,