I use a series of four horizontal panels to organize this scene of a mother duck leading her brood of more than a dozen ducklings on a lunchtime hunt. My tutorial student and I followed these creatures as they combed the grassy slopes of the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall for meal morsels. The feed itself was an unimpressive subject. The ducks were generally facing away from us, often in shade, and their faces were often obscured. They were on their way back to one of the park’s reflecting pools when I made this image. Here they appear in striking profile, walking nearly two by two, their parade echoing the horizontal line of shrubs behind them, the horizontal flow of the pool, and a horizontal blue wall on the other side of the pool, topped by a row of plantings. The entire image seems to be on the move with the ducklings. A glorious fan of water spouting from the pool’s fountain dominates the image and crowns the image with celebratory symbolism.