Highlights graze this bronze monument to a woman who left four young children behind. It was the interplay of light and shadow that attracted my interest first, not the tomb. These highlights emphasized only the youngest and the oldest of the children, and minimized the rest. Nature sculpts and resculpts this sculpture with light every day. It's meaning changes hourly. At this moment, the light was coming from the side and grazing only the two children who look to the left. I exposed for them, knowing that if I exposed for the entire scene in order to make shadow detail more visible, I would wash out the details in the highlighted areas. Shadows withhold and suggest meaning, while light fully reveals it. I often expose for highlights, and let shadows go dark. It makes my pictures more abstract, less literal, and often more dimensional, leaving room for the viewer's imagination to do its work.