Our first day in Morocco was miserable. (Fortunately for us, it would be the only day of rain we had on the three-week visit to Morocco.) I made the wretched weather the subject of this picture. Shooting from the inside of a dry parked car, I used a long telephoto (420mm) to focus on a distant figure waiting to cross a busy downtown Casablanca street in a driving rain. I used four layers to express a sense of patience, loneliness, and frustration. The first layer – the wet pavement in the foreground – leads into the image. An abstracted man, shoulders hunched and hands thrust in pockets, stands on a curb next to with a parked bike. This is my subject layer. Blurred cars rush past him in the third layer. The fourth layer is a series of surreal background reflections in the windows of buildings across the street. This image could be a metaphor for the nature of life itself -- we often must face the world alone, and somehow we must have the patience to endure, and make the best we can out of it. Eventually, the traffic will slow; the man will cross the street, and find his way to shelter.