I built this image around a single spot of glowing late afternoon light on the bluff across the river. I used my spot meter to expose for that spot of light, and allowed the rest of the image to darken. I lowered my camera to my waist so that I would fill the bottom of the image with a screen of brush, creating a primary anchor layer. The reflection of the light in the river becomes my middle layer, and the subject itself is the final layer.