We were going out and I was waiting for my wife to finish getting ready. As I stood in the kitchen I noticed the late (around 4:00 pm) afternoon light streaming through the french doors in the kitchen and casting the shadows of the lattice and of a plant onto the wood floor. It seemed to me that this would make a nice black and white image. I also liked the way the the texture of the wood grain on the floor contrasted with the essentially ‘textureless’ shadows.