The 24mm wideangle lens is a favorite tool of photojournalists. To me, expressive travel photography is a form of photojournalism. My goal is make a picture that tells a story, and few lenses are as effective storytellers as true wideangle lenses. I simply could not work without one. In this case I am expressing the frustration of those who must sit all day in a market and sell their products for a pittance. The hands of those involved in it tell the story. Using my Canon G6 at waist level, and looking down into a flip up LCD viewing screen, I was able to unobtrusively move in between these two customers to shoot down on the two women doing the selling, choosing a tight, intimate vantage point, yet embracing the entire story within the scope of a wideangle lens. (Something I could not do as unobtrusively if I had been working with a DSLR!) One of them sits sullenly, watching the transaction that is going down over her shoulder. The woman doing the selling is thrusting a bag of tangerines at her customer, who already has two bags of them in her basket. With her other hand, she holds her head. She is either very tired or bored with her job. Because of the optics of the wideangle lens, the hand holding out the bag appears to be larger than the other hand. It is also slightly blurred. The woman at right counts out her money deliberately, keeping the bored tangerine seller waiting. Meanwhile, the customer’s son uses his hand to stuff a slice of tangerine into his mouth. You, the viewer, are stuck in the middle of this transaction. You ride on the shoulders of these customers, and stare into the faces of those disinterested and perhaps frustrated vendors. I anchor the image with a foreground layer featuring the shopping basket and the masses of tangerines on the ground. The two frustrated vendors become the middle ground layer. And the empty street, symbolizing a scarcity of customers, becomes the background layer, adding context for additional meaning. To embrace such a story as this, I have thrust myself into the midst of the transaction itself, and with a 24mm wideangle lens stressed the story the hands are telling us.