Large groups of Hmong children greeted us in the dusty river villages along the Mekong River. I originally had composed this image as a horizontal, including eight children instead of five. It was a fragmented, diffused grouping, which had some of the children looking in different directions, and poor spacing between those at the right and left hand edges. I reorganized the image by cropping it into to a vertical format, including only this tightly integrated cluster of five children. Their positions of the hands and feet vary, yet the heads of the children on each end are higher than the others, and serve as visual “bookends.” These children have grouped themselves alongside of a log that moves us diagonally through the image. More importantly, the group has arranged itself with coherence instead of chaos. All are fascinated as they watch visiting tourists move into their small village, and all look in the same direction. The colors of their clothing relate as well – none scream for attention. The image expresses a cultural divide as well –although all of them harmonize in terms of color, some wear contemporary clothes while the others wear traditional garments. Times are changing, even in remote of Laotian river villages. The only thing I did to organize this image for coherence and meaning – was to crop it. The children spontaneously composed the rest of it for me.