I saw this lone figure walking the early morning streets of this small farming village outside of Lijiang and wanted to create a sense of scale incongruity between him and his environment. I needed to stretch my picture and make the house in the foreground as large as possible, the road as long as possible, and the man as small as possible. I shot this scene at three different wideangle focal lengths (35mm, 28mm, and 24mm) to see which worked best. This time, my choice was 24mm. It was an ideal tool to solve this challenge.