While cruising through Kotor Bay, we passed a small shipyard, where freighters were being repaired and refurbished. I used my telephoto lens at its full 432mm length to abstract the hull of a distant ship, forming a three-layer image. The foreground layer is a shimmering reflection, which leads the eye to the ship. The middle ground layer is the dock at right, with its extending ladder at upper right and an array of colored ropes, each of them used for a specific repair function. The background layer holds the hull of the massive ship itself – its surface resembling a painter’s palette, with reflected light dancing gently along its keel, its name in bold lettering, and the shadows of the ropes and ladders attached to it adding their voices to the chorus. The variations in the play of light helps make this layered image function as expression.