Red always draws the eye. So do patterns of rhythmic vertical lines. And when we bring them together, the effect can be mesmerizing. I found such a combination of graphic effects in the lobby of a hotel not far from were I live. Graphic effects can produce startling form, but we need more than just form itself to create an expressive image. In this case, I was able to juxtapose the hotel’s front door against these posts in an incongruous manner. I stood at the top of a stairway and exposed the photograph so that the lower story vanishes into abstract darkness. The hotel’s doorway now seems to be suspended in air above it. I shot numerous people passing through those doors, and when these men left the lobby in tandem, I rhythmically related their upright posture to the row of red vertical posts that fill much of the image behind them. They walk from out of the lobby’s red zone into the green zone of an Arizona morning. To them, it is just the simple act of leaving a building. But to the viewer of this image, it becomes a journey from one world of color into another.