I built this image around five layers of vertical posts and horizontal piers lining the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. I include very little sky in this image, anchoring the posts and piers upon the heavily textured water. The flat light helps me abstract the image, and make the piers and posts appear in silhouette. Spots of rich color in the small green and red numerical signs in the foreground and far background create colorful front and back “book ends” for this composition. Another key to this image rests in a very small foreground detail – a cormorant sits on top of the green sign. Our ship was in motion, and the cormorant, while stationary, is moving as the ship moves. I waited until the bird fell within the posts of pier just behind it, and then released the shutter.