The long hard climb up a cliff known as Prince Philip's Steps, named in honor of a visit by the Duke of Edinburgh's visit in the 1960s, was worth it, if just for this image of a nesting Great Frigatebird family. I was able to work at eye level and at close range without bothering them. I made numerous images of the mother, father, and chick, waiting for something to happen that would bring the image to life and give it meaning. I wanted more than a picture of specimen birds in a nest. I wanted instead to stress a familial bond. It is hard to get three different birds to symbolically bond together as a family, but when the chick lifted its head towards its mother, as the father lowered its head and brought its beak closer to the mother at the same time, it all came together for me. Two primary colors work on behalf of the image as well -- the turquoise blue throat of the chick and the red eye of the mother, as well as the red throat of the father, draw the eye of the viewer and hold on to it here.