By angling my wideangle lens upwards and tilting it to one side, I was able to turn the corner of a simple stucco building into a pyramid-like structure. The wideangle distorts perspective at close range, and I’ve used it here to do just that. Wideangle lenses also make it easier to shoot images built as a series of layers. The bush in the foreground is my foreground layer, anchoring the image. The building is the middle layer. I noticed birds flying overhead, and kept shooting from this position until I able to freeze one of them to create my third layer. Its outstretched wings echo the thrust of the leaves on the plantings in my foreground layer. The pyramidically shaped building now resembles a monument, symbolizing man’s dreams of eternal power. The plants surrounding it reach towards the sun, a reminder of nature’s vitality. The bird soaring overhead repeats shape of the leaves with its wings, adding the promise of freedom to this image.