I combine the romance of the sea with holiday festivity by photographing just one of the hundreds of illuminated sailboats passing along Jacksonville’s St. John’s River during the city’s annual “Light Boat Parade,” a civic celebration kicking off the holiday season. This overhead view, which I shot from my hotel window eight stories above the scene, emphasizes the strikingly abstracted colors reflected upon the surface of the river itself. Four additional reflections, created by an illuminated bridge and another decorated craft, intensify the effect.