This theatre opened here 76 years ago, and is still going strong. Once home to radio broadcasts featuring the likes of Jack Benny, Bob Hope, and Bing Crosby, it now features a vaudeville show known as the “Fabulous Palm Springs Follies,” starring performers ranging in age from 54 to 83. Here’s how I composed this image: I moved in on a poster placed outside the theatre, tilting my camera slightly to make the visible part of the poster’s frame into a dynamic diagonal running through the center of the image. This emphatic image structure invites a comparison between the enthusiastic image of a performer on the right, and the curving lights over the theatre’s doors, as well as the massed bunting and flags above them on the left. Those flags hang from diagonal poles, while the arm and costume of the performer echo those diagonals. Finally, the placement of the flags, arm, and costume pull the eye of the viewer diagonally through the image from corner to corner.