Time seems to stand still in Petaluma. The great earthquakes that rocked the Bay area in the 20th century spared this town. With old buildings and a vintage car behind him, this man takes his coffee down to the Petaluma River to muse on times gone by. I built this image around its geometry. The fence between the man and the river is a series of vertical lines. The trees and posts in the background carry the vertical theme throughout the image. The diagonal white lines on the street and the line of the curb connect the man to the old car -- the eye is drawn back and forth along that diagonal between the man’s head and the spare tire on the back of the car.