Several years ago, I was in Tucson, Arizona, and stopped by one of the desert museums during a midday break. As I returned to my car, my eyes caught sight of the arrangement shown above. (My eyes are constantly searching for “arrangements,” otherwise known as pleasing compositions.) As is clear to see in the image at top left, my arrangement is in a parking lot, of all places. Many of you might be quick to turn off that search engine inside your brain when you come upon a location or area that you deem uninteresting or unphotographable or boring. And, let’s face it, parking lots aren’t usually where most of us look for compelling photographic opportunities. (As an aside, I know of no place that is boring or uninteresting, at least in photographic terms. Sure, some locations have proved remarkably challenging, as in “pulling my hair out” challenging—and if you know my hair, that is serious—but once I surrendered my vision to the elements of design and used my go- to lens, the Micro-Nikkor 105mm, I have always found something to shoot—always!)

Within seconds, I was shooting a multiple-exposure image with Nikon’s Multiple Exposure feature—nine exposures, in fact, all shot at f/11 for 1/100 sec., though each taken at a slightly different angle. All nine exposures were then magically and automatically blended in camera thanks to Nikon’s onboard computer, and as we can see in the final arrangement, we have a completely out of focus yet quite compelling arrangement! Multiple exposures like this are possible with most Nikon digital SLRs (DSLRs), a few of the Pentax models, and, as of this writing, one Canon (the 1DX).

All exposures: Nikon D300S with 70–300mm lens, f/11 for 1/100 sec., ISO 200