Three female pronghorns occupy a multi-layered space that begins on the plains and concludes in the mountains. All of these layers are horizontal, stacked upon each other within a vertical frame, which builds tension and helps push the eye from bottom to top. The image speaks of both these antelopes and their environment, which ranges here from chaparral to alpine. The upright ears of the antelopes echo the upward thrust of the trees in the distance. There are two transitional layers in this image. The antelope themselves are transitional, standing within the broadest single area of ground in the photograph. Their grass is brown, while the grass immediately before them and behind them is green. These layers represent their food supply. Four horizontal layers of green grass alternate with four horizontal layers of brown grass. The trees elevate the areas of green upward, providing another transitional layer that links the antelopes and plain before them, to the mountains that soar behind them.