A sole runner takes over the same underpass I used as the setting of the previous image in this gallery. Only now I stand within the underpass itself. I saw her coming as she entered the tunnel, and waited for her to reach the foliage growing through the tunnel’s vaulted ceiling. I fill most of the frame with a virtually empty cement foreground, stressing the distance she has yet to cover. I use the softly focused railing at right to lead the eye into the image, while the roughly textured cement wall leads us through the frame from the left. I create a scale incongruity by diminishing the size of the runner. She is small, while the hard-edged environment is vast and somewhat daunting. She comes at us from the warmth of the sun-splashed end of the tunnel crowned with greens, and now must negotiate the barren, chilly path that stretches before her.