A layered image is most effective when the elements in the different layers echo each other. Such is the case in this image – it begins with a small buoy at the bottom edge of the image, which is the brightest spot in the photo. It is small but striking, drawing the eye to its vertical shape. It points directly to the forest of sail boats anchored just behind it. The boats are darker than the buoy, yet the tips of their masts catch the day’s first light, and replicate the buoy’s verticality. The masts in turn lead to the prime layer – the city itself, and its cluster of golden 19th century buildings. These towers echo the sailboat masts, while the 38-story Agbar Tower, resembling a huge vertical pickle, incongruously dominates the image. The final layers of this cityscape carry the eye into the fog-shrouded hills in the background, and then to a clear morning sky.