During my four day stay in Palm Springs, I looked for a single moment in light, time, and space that best expressed the ambiance of Palm Springs itself. I did not have to go very far to find it – this scene appeared within our hotel room window on our final evening of the trip. To make it work, I used a wideangle focal length to frame the entire shape of that window within my camera’s frame. I used spot metering to expose on the golden unbroken line of cumulous clouds flowing over the distant mountain range, causing the rhythmic pattern of palm trees in the foreground to become silhouettes. An irrelevant parking lot filled the bottom half of my frame, so I put it into deep shadow, once again using my camera's spot-metering mode. The diagonal slash of the receding window frame envelops the rhythmic march of the palms within a vanishing parallelogram that would be quite at home in the Art Deco world of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Palm Springs established itself as a premier winter desert resort during that era, and I made this image to celebrate its ambiance.