The spectacle of a huge container ship making it’s way through the Panama Canal with barely an inch to spare makes a perfect subject for scale incongruity. I cropped the scene boldly in my frame, showing only a part of the ships hull and a fraction of the containers piled high on its decks. In the lower right hand corner of this picture a ramp rises toward the ship, and three workers seem to be following along in its wake. By comparing that heap of containers to the three fellows ambling along behind this ship, I try to express the importance of the canal itself, a vital seaway that moves 200 million tons of through its locks every year. This mass of containers is just a tiny fraction of that enormous payload.