With at least 5,000 expatriates living in San Miguel, a special section of the town's cemetery is set aside for burials of foreigners. It is tidy, with gravestones carefully aligned, quite different from the casually arranged, crowded Mexican cemetery that adjoins it. On The Day of The Dead, the Mexican cemetery is blanketed in flowers. Yet with respect and dignity, someone has thoughtfully placed a simple pair of marigold blossoms on this expatriate gravestone. I used my spot meter to expose for the highlights on the brightest edge of the gravestone. The result is an underexposed image that retains all detail in the stone and flowers, but makes the shadowed background and faces of the grave stones as dark as possible. The two stones move diagonally through the image, leaving as much room as possible for the viewer’s imagination to work. The end result is a considerably abstract image, with a touch of incongruity, built on essential human values.