A Vientiane commuter roars past a display of umbrellas on the city's Fa Ngum, a road that runs along the Mekong River. I was able to blur the cyclist even at the very fast shutter speed of 1/500th of a second, because of the angle at which I made the picture. When a subject is moving very fast at right angles to the camera it will show blur in some way at even very fast shutter speeds. (Slower shutter speeds can show even more blur, but under these conditions, the camera I was using would not allow me to go much slower than 1/250th of a second, which probably would not have added a significant amount of additional blur to heighten the illusion of speed.) The key to the motion expressed in this image is the contrast in definition between the sharp umbrellas and blurred cyclist. I was fortunate that she was wearing a loose jacket that was blowing behind her, and that she picked up her hand to keep her hair out of her face at the moment of exposure. Both bring a sense of additional movement to this image, as does the flow of pattern in the two umbrellas behind the motorbike.