Standing in the very place where the Civil War began, I moved in on the spot where a Union army gun carriage supports its cannon . My image uses a close up vantage point, extracting light, detail, texture, and color to express the brutal mechanics of war itself, as well as the inexorable passage of time. I intended to make a photo of something very small that represents something very large – in this case, the tragic collision between North and South more than 150 years ago.