Window at the Canturbury Inn © Kevin W. Hammond, 2004 All Rights Reserved

While traveling on business to Madison, Wisconsin and staying at the Canturbury Inn, I completed reading Bryan F. Peterson's Learning to See Creatively.  On my day of departure I awoke late and threw open the curtains of the window and turned to walk away and shower.  But then I stopped.  I remebered reading about patterns.  I remembered reading about framing images that prevent the eye from leaving the picture.

I had left my tripod at home on this trip, but fortunately had my mini Manfroto with me.  I quickly scoured the room for something that would afford me the height I needed to take a picture of the window.  I placed the desk chair atop an endtable chess board, extended my mini tripod as high as it would go and framed the shot above.

I used my 18-55mm lens set to 37mm, chose an aperture of f/22 and adjusted my shutter speed until 1/6 second indicated a correct exposure at ISO 400.