At least once every Christmas we brave the crowds at the Mesa LDS temple to attend one of a series of outdoor concerts. Last night we went over to listen to the amazing Mountain View High School Chorale and stuck around for a few minutes afterward to take in the Christmas lights. It was a warm and almost perfectly still night which, as you can see in the photograph, turned the reflecting pool into a mirror. The grounds were very crowded and I wanted the image to have as few people in it as possible, so I shot at ISO 200, stopped down to f/18, which allowed me to leave the shutter open for a long time. As long as people are moving at a reasonable pace through the frame, the long exposure will cause them either to disappear or to be barely visible in the image. One guy on the far right of the frame was standing still and wearing a sports jersey with a reflective number 15 on the back, so I had to cheat and photoshop him out.