I always use my spot meter when shooting in strongly contrasting light. Here, I exposed the picture for the marble floor surrounding a bandstand in the center of Tecate's Hidalgo Plaza. This exposure retains color and detail in the marble while abstracting everything else in the picture. Using a 24mm wideangle converter lens, which offers very deep focusing, I shot from the bandstand as two people walked into my picture. The rhythmic pattern of the bandstand railing and the shadow of the bandstand’s circular roof create a curving path to propel these pedestrians through my frame. The degree of abstraction makes this picture work. Because one of these people is in silhouette and the other walks with his head down, they become abstractions symbolizing the ebb and flow of the pedestrian traffic that walks through this Plaza by and day and night.