Grafton, Utah, lies along the Virgin River just outside of Zion National Park. In 1886, its Mormon settlers built this adobe building to use as a school and church. In the early years of the 20th Century, its families moved to land with better irrigation, leaving this old school and a graveyard behind. This image offers more than a description of the building itself. It goes further, providing a ghostly context for the building. It stands alone in a desert, under wisps of clouds. I used a 24mm wideangle lens to stretch the scene, and stress the height of the clouds as well as the sweep of the landscape, while keeping the size of the building as large as possible within the frame. (If I had used a narrower focal length, I could have included the same content by backing up, but then the building would have become smaller and lost its emphasis.) The key to the expressiveness of this image is the placement of the diagonal cloud over the chimney of the building. It appears as smoke, yet the building has been vacant for more than 100 years.