We visited the village of a hill tribe known as the Lat people in Vietnam’s mountainous central highlands. The highlight of the visit was a rousing series of tribal dances, performed by firelight. Once again, all of my fellow photographers used flash to record the appearance of the dancers. But their images will not replicate what their own eyes saw. Instead, they will show the dance stopped in time and bathed in artificial light. I chose to not to describe what I saw, but rather express what I felt. I made hundreds of images of these moving subjects by the light of a distant fire. This one best defined the essence of the dance – mysterious, energetic, primitive, and flowing over with energy. I shot the dancers at a third of a second. This particular image was a pan – I moved the camera while the shutter was open in the direction of the dancers. As a result, the figure in the center of the image seems to lunge directly at us, while his fellow dancers, both before and after him, dissolve into tendrils of flowing fiery light.