Sand 'HI' message on beach

The scene shows the word "HI" written by hand into pale dry sand on a gently sloping beach, framed for a vertical 9:16 crop with the letters occupying the lower third of the frame to read clearly from top to bottom. The quoted wording "HI" appears centered horizontally, each letter scaled large enough to remain legible on phone screens and spaced with clean counters and simple strokes in the sand material with crisp ridge edges. The shoreline sits higher in frame with a narrow band of wet sand and soft foam, and surfaces are textured as dry powdery sand, compact wet sand, and scattered shell fragments for tactile contrast. Light is warm and directional, bathing ridges in gentle golden highlights and creating soft elongated shadows for legibility, with an overall warm color bias echoing #CDBA96 and #EEDCB3 against sea teal accents like #5A8BA6 and sun gold hints like #F2A65A and deeper wet-brown like #7A5A3E. Focus is crisp on the engraved letters with moderate depth so the foreground text reads sharp while the shoreline and horizon soften into a pleasant blur. The viewpoint is a slightly elevated eye-level to suggest a handheld phone capture with tight vertical framing, balanced negative space above the letters, and the crop guided for mobile story use. A single small seashell and a partial footprint sit near the message as story cues that reinforce human presence and scale, while a faint ripple of incoming foam introduces gentle motion and a calm coastal mood. The image is photographic realism, capturing natural textures and subtle color grading for a clean, shareable portrait-orientation visual.