I attend this bicycle festival in Monterey every year and this view (looking up on the North hillside surrounding the Laguna-Seca raceway where the event is held) is iconic for anyone who attends the event. I was experimenting with chunky, textured, childlike imagery and it worked well on the greens of the hillside and the sky. But I learned that I prefer realistic proportion and shading rather than the flattened look I ended up with here. I like the way the people in the crowds came together but looking back, realize I should have used more color and not left the figures all black.