The El Tovar Hotel is the architectural crown jewel of Grand Canyon National Park. A registered National Historic Landmark, the hotel commands the South Rim, offering dizzying views of the canyon from some of its guest rooms. Built in 1905 of Oregon pine logs and native stone, the rustic but elegant hotel is often sold out a year in advance. Several American presidents have stayed at El Tovar, including Theodore Roosevelt, who was instrumental in preserving the canyon as a U.S. National Park. When I think of Teddy Roosevelt, a moose comes to mind – he loved to hunt them, and their heads still adorn his home at Oyster Bay, NY. He also ran for a third term as President of the United States in 1912 as the candidate of the Bull Moose Party. The head of this huge moose is mounted on a varnished wall of the El Tovar’s lobby. It has looked down on visitors as they have passed through this lobby for more than 100 years. I immediately noticed the huge pine logs supporting the ceiling overhead, and composed this image to relate the rhythms of the prongs on the glistening antlers of the moose to the rhythmic flow of log beams just above it. I tilted the camera to create countering diagonal thrusts of both the log ceiling beams and the log wall holding the moose head. I made this image hand-held, at one full second. Thanks largely to my camera’s image stabilization system, the photograph holds its detail well at that slow a shutter speed.