This Brown Pelican, draped over a railing, lethargically greeted us as we arrived at Pensacola, Florida, our first port in the Gulf. I liked the horizontal thrust of the railing, the incongruously limpid posture of the bird. This image is a good example of how selective focusing can help organize a photograph. Using a long telephoto lens (375mm), I focused on the pelican, throwing both the foreground and the background out of focus. The pelican is the only sharply defined object in the picture, and seems to be luxuriating on the softly focused fencing.