Something like this is what I was thinking... hope you don't mind
Caught this lad on Alnmouth beach in Northumberland "toying" with the waves as we all have done when we were kids!. The weather was a typical North Eastern summer, dull grey sky, warmish but overcast.
Your comments are appreciated
CSI style (hope you don't mind!)...
If you are going to crop it then crop it on the right not the left. You need space on the left for the subject to be running into.