This street scene places a premium on the hilly environment of Kinsale itself, and uses the person as context. I was fascinated with the colorful streets of this small Irish fishing village, built on steep hills. I found a particularly striking color contrast – a green house hard by an orange house, each with tidy white trim. But to shoot the street scene as just a street scene is not what I do. I needed to express an idea, and waited for it to come. It did. Only minutes after taking up a camera position on the other side of the street, a youngster in a powder blue sweatshirt came running down the hill at a breakneck pace. Using a wideangle lens to stretch the scene (I would stretch it to appear even wider later by cropping off some of the top as well as the bottom.) The digital shutter delay on my Canon G5 camera is significant, so I knew I had to press the shutter button when the kid reached the window in order to place her just a step away from the orange structure. Because of a heavy overcast, the shutter speed was too slow to stop her swift action. Instead the child is an abstracted blur, which is all the more effective for my intentions. My concept was simply a child “running the hill” against the backdrop of the traditional pastel colors of Kinsale’s houses. The slanted street and the angled building foundations gave me that hill, and the blurred child is all about the run.