You can find pictures of happy kids and beautiful sunsets in most travel albums and web pages. That’s not a bad thing – because such clichés can bring back personal memories of great value. But I try to do whatever it takes to avoid clichés if I can. I can often do so by using abstraction. Here I combine both sunset and youthful subject matter by abstracting them into a chase scene. By backlighting these people, they become silhouettes. I also abstract the sunset by stressing its effect, rather than depicting its beauty. The key to this photo is the child in the middle of the frame – he is incongruously small when compared to the adults he is chasing.