Shuhe is a Naxi village just outside of Lijiang. Its craftsmen work the wood just as they always have -- by hand. The early morning light striking the stone wall in the background has allowed me to put my subject into shadow, abstracting him so that we see shape rather than detail. I used my multiple image option, holding down the shutter button to fire a series of three frame bursts. One of them stopped the axe at a diagonal angle, complementing the three sets of crossed diagonals elsewhere in the image.