I used early morning light and shadow to abstract this street scene in one of Vancouver’s oldest and popular neighborhoods. A bearded man, holding a piece of paper, pauses in the middle of a rant to passing tourists. I abstract the image, wrapping him in shadow, and illuminating only his lower half in light. Just behind him, another man sleeps behind a window, oblivious to the rant and everything else. They may share the same general space, but they have entirely different agendas. This is an image based on human values, incongruity and abstraction – the three most important principles in expressive travel photography.