An entire block is devoted to selling reconditioned motors of all kinds in Yangon's Indian Quarter. As this street flows on, doctors ply their specialties, Indian foods are sold, and signs featuring plastic letters are cut by hand. To best capture the flavor of this hectic street market, I chose to shoot unobtrusively from waist level, using the Canon G6 with its flip up viewfinder and 24mm wideangle converter lens. These men were looking right at me – I was only a foot or two away from them. But they could not figure out what I was doing, since I did not have my camera up in front of my face like most photographers. I could make eye contact with them, nodding my head and giving them a big smile. I wanted to engage them at close quarters, encouraging a response, and respond they did. Each of them intently studies me, and in turn studies you. And you study them. The wideangle lens used up close like this can be an intimate story telling tool, particularly when used at waist level. The men become the focal point as my foreground anchor layer. The sweep of the street behind them becomes context as the middle ground and background layers are filled with mechanical objects and busy people. It just keeps on going like this in Old Rangoon’s Indian Quarter, blocks and blocks of people doing business from their doorsteps. This image easily could have fallen apart into incoherent chaos, as often happens with wideangle lenses used on busy and complex subject matter. My close up wideangle vantage point, creating this emphatic anchor layer and the diagonal thrust of the image from lower left towards upper right, turns potential chaos into both order and meaning.