I made this old locomotive, which once hauled borax out of Death Valley, into a ghostly presence by shooting it from a close-up vantage point using a camera with a 28mm wideangle lens. I photographed from within the shadows created by the locomotive, deliberately catching lens flare from the sun, which was shining straight down. The rainbow of flare, cascading over the top of the locomotive, gives it an otherworldly look, as do the plantings that brush its sides. The key to the image is the degree of abstraction I was able to create. We see only part of the engine – never its shape or setting. We are left with a feeling, rather than a description.