Demolition crews work late, and often with primitive equipment, to smash the old in order to make the new in booming Beijing. I photographed this man at work on and off from various positions for nearly ten minutes, watching the sun swiftly work its way ever downward. Finally the sun reached the arc of his swing. Spot-metering off the sun itself, everything becomes shadow except for the golden sky and white-hot sun. The buildings are abstracted geometric shapes. We have no idea how big or how small they may be. They become symbols of a city, nothing more. Using the multiple frame option, I hold the shutter button down as he begins his downward swing. Three frames are exposed within a second. One of them is dead on – the back of the man and the shaft of the hammer are complementary diagonals, and the hammer slices into the sun itself.