I wanted to express some of the excitement that runs through a crowd of thousands of baseball fans. My concept is very simple – use three distinct layers to tell the story. I wanted a foreground layer of abstracted energy– arms, heads, and caps thrust skyward. The middle layer was the stadium and the playing field, along with the tiny figures of the baseball players. And the background layer would be the evening sky, a mixture of streaming clouds and a hint of the setting sun. The only difficult part would be obtaining the foreground layer – excitement is usually spontaneous, and the camera must be focused, framed, and ready for that instant. In this case, the problem was solved for me – the crowd was doing the “wave” –a ritualistic form of enthusiastic cheering that begins in one part of the stadium, and eventually circles the entire field. I could see the wave of cheering fans as it rolled towards me, and was easily able to make this photograph as the people just in front of me stood and shouted their support for their team.