I used my spot-metering mode to expose for the early morning light on the pavement, throwing the surrounding hundred year old buildings along Old Montreal’s St. John the Baptist street into abstracting shadows. I built the image around a pedestrian – as she reached the end of the street, her head and shoulders were rimmed in glowing light. She is small, the scene large, creating a sense of scale incongruity. I use shadows here as an abstracting medium, and employ black and white to intensify them.