Florence is known for its 1936 bridge carrying Route 101 across the Siuslaw River. I photographed it at dusk, using a wideangle lens turned vertically to stress the huge pilings as my foreground layer, and worked the horizontal bridge in as my middle ground layer. The final layer is the soaring cloudscape, which once again returns to a vertical orientation. I call this a layer sandwich, alternating between vertical and horizontal thrusts. Even though the subject may be a still-life, these alternating layers create a set of tensions and counter tensions that energize the scene.