Until someone decided to trim them to the ground, the vines that grew on this fence provided me each fall with colorful leaves against the pleasing neutral gray of the weathered cedar. On this particular day I was out before sunrise doing macro studies of the leaves. Soon I felt the warmth of the sun on my back and turned to see our star rising through the morning mists over Beech Lake. The principal elements in this image immediately flashed before me and it was a simple matter to create the image in camera that I had pre-visualized in my mind, combining the red leaves against the gray fence, the neutral color of which I knew would disappear, with the sun rising through the mist. I had to move my tripod several feet to one side in order to position the sun between the trees on the other side of Webb Road. I use the grid lines on the E-Screen in my camera’s viewfinder to assist in the placement of elements in composite images.