As I was standing along the boardwalk in Juneau, Alaska I noticed the piers under a section of walkway and how the evening light was lighting them up a little from their normally dark place. Initially I took some images of the scene, but after a little while I moved to a longer exposure length and slowly moved the camera in a vertical direction which match the primary direction of the wood pilings. The result of this movement is the look of the pilings in this photograph as well as a smoothing of the water of the Gastineau Channel below.