Composing a picture from the deck of a moving cruise ship is a difficult task. The problem is lack of compelling foreground subject matter. Most pictures made from cruise ships are flat because they lack depth perspective. There must be either a strong texture in the foreground body of water, or else there must be a progression or layering of subject matter from front to back, such as we can easily find on land. Layering subject matter provides depth, perspective, and scale contrasts. I saw the immense iceberg pictured here getting closer and closer to us as we progressed through the icy seas off the Antarctic Peninsula. Its shape reminded me of a huge sunken freighter. I realized, however, that unless I could get something else between my camera position and that iceberg, my picture would be flat, and lack perspective. Fortunately, a much smaller iceberg was also moving closer to us as we approached it, and it was much closer to the side of our ship as well. We could almost reach down and touch it. It made a perfect foreground layer, leading the viewer’s eye directly to the big iceberg, and providing a scale contrast indicating just how large that distant iceberg really is. I shot just as the reflection of the foreground iceberg appeared in the lower right hand corner of my picture. It rhythmically echoes the triangular shape of the big iceberg in the upper left hand corner, which in turn is repeated by the same shape at top center. If we drew a line connecting these three triangles, we would create still another triangle diagonally tying this image together.