I usually use the spot-metering mode of my camera, primarily to emphasize the brightest area of an image, contrasting it to the darker surroundings. This image is a good example. By exposing this image on these green, yellow, and blue recycling bins, which help keep the lawns of Sucre’s magnificent Parque Simon Bolivar pristine, I underscore the importance of the cans and create an interpretation of this scene. If I had routinely used the standard multi-area metering mode, preferred by the great majority of photographers, to make this image, the abstracted people in the background would have been given equal emphasis, and the image would be more descriptive and less interpretive.