This woman was enjoying a bowl of soup for breakfast while I made her picture. She saw me, but her mind seemed elsewhere. She wears the traditional round conical hat, so common in rural Vietnam. The hat itself takes on triangular form when perceived in a photograph, and in this case it acts as the apex of a triangular composition. The table at which she eats is filled with bowls and soups. I make that horizontal row of materials the base of a triangle. The woman rises up from it in triangular fashion, largely because of the shape of the hat she wears. She is mostly obscured in shadow with highlights on one hand and on the top of the hat. Yet that is enough to at least imply a triangular shape. I normally try to avoid placing my subjects in the center of my frame. Yet with the triangular composition and her imperious, dignified manner, the center placement is appropriately formal.