Image clean up

I am new to freelancing and have no clients to list yet. This is an exercise file from a course I took; the image can be found at Pexels.com.

For this project, I cleaned up the beach of debris and reduced the number of distracting dark spots/shadows. Then, I removed a person from the photo. I used Affinity Photo's inpainting brush for the beach and the clone stamp tool to remove the surfer in the background.