This image places us within an improvised shopping mall comprised of very small shops in a quiet corner of one of the hottest, driest cities in the world. The Atacama Desert is just inland, and its dust coats everything in town. These merchants have raised a canopy over their street, hoping to ward off heat and dirt. This canopy gives the photo great depth perspective, as well as a flow of pattern to lead the eye where I wanted it to go. Sunlight pours through the canopy at an angle, creating a ribbon of white light down the middle of the dirt street, leading the eye deeply into the heart of the picture and stopping virtually at the feet of a woman who stands before a tour agency, probably waiting for customers. The receding row of doorways along the left side of the picture also draws us into the photo. Everything leads us to the patient woman and the signs that surround her.