This restaurant creates shade for its customers by covering its sidewalk café with an awning and an umbrella. A sole diner sits below the umbrella, its fiery red panels dominating the scene. Because he is under the umbrella, I can silhouette his figure against the gray window behind him, stressing body language, instead of his detailed appearance. He becomes an abstraction, a symbolic diner. I caught him with his water bottle poised in mid-flight. It is either on the way up or on the way down. Whenever I must shoot in “bad light” I look for people under umbrellas and awnings, and sometimes I get lucky. I photographed this figure at various moments during his meal, and this is the image that offered the most tension in the gesture.