Every now and then, a subject in color will lend itself perfectly to a black and white conversion. I knew as soon as I made this image of silhouetted Red Footed Boobies in flight contrasting to the solid bank of white clouds above them, as well as to a silhouetted cactus and rocky promontory below, that I had a candidate for a black and white image. There was almost no color in the original image to begin with, and the abstracting power of black and white intensifies the dramatic and forceful nature of the shapes themselves. The Boobies aloft are dynamic, their shapes reminding us of streaking arrows in flight. The space between them, as well as the space between them and the rounded shapes of the cactus pads that reach into the air towards them, create a triangular relationship that organizes the image. I wanted no colors to intrude here -- the image is pure geometry, and black and white provides a perfect canvas for such a display as this.