The streets of Bruges are still lined with the 500-year-old mansions of cloth merchants. We can see those houses here as a metaphor for another time and place, a way of life that is no more. The sun struggles to break through the dark clouds overhead, which cast darkly symbolic shadows upon those houses. The eerie light is symbolically haunting. Day leans towards night, because a golden moon, symbolic of the night, dominates the image. Yet the sun, symbolic of the day, is clearly struggling to break through those clouds. This is why I took this camera position, and why I used a wideangle lens to carefully juxtapose all of these symbols within a single frame.