As a participant in a digital travel photography workshop at the Santa Fe Workshops, I was assigned the task of creating an image organized around a strong angle and contrasting primary colors. Walking down Canyon Road, Santa Fe's famed gallery row, I discovered this flowery stairway leading to a landing backed by blue framed windows. As I approached the stairs, this dog appeared at the top, an ideal subject. Using a wideangle converter lens on my digital camera, i moved in as close as I could to the flowers, filling nearly the entire right hand side of the frame with them. I placed the dog in the upper left hand corner of the frame, creating a diagonal flow of subject matter from upper left to lower right. As i begain shooting, the dog tilted his head and lowered his ears, amost as if he was evaluating my efforts, and lending a perfect expression to this photographic challenge.