I not only consciously look for light. I also look for color. The bright green clothing of the woman initially drew me to the scene – an outdoor kitchen on the streets of the Mekong Delta border town of Chau Doc. She stood between two green pails and window shutters painted in the same color as her clothing. She was reaching for a green dish with her right hand at the moment. I took a vantage point that made all of these green subjects – pails, clothing, dish, and shutters – align diagonally. The green color ties what would have been a very cluttered image into a coherent whole. Amazingly, all of these green subjects are the identical shade of green, which makes this image even more incongruously expressive. Her daughter, who was wearing a bright red shirt, was only a few feet away. Fortunately, I was able to frame the shot without her in it – she would have destroyed the diagonal and the point of the picture along with it.