I set up a lot of pictures to make them as perfect as possible given my previsualization of any given situation, but this shot happened by pure serendipity. I was shooting Wat Arun in Bangkok in late afternoon light with a 24-105mm lens set to the widest focal length, and I was using the lens to exaggerate the leading line and the powerful perspective of the stone stairs. While I was composing the shot, a monk started down the stairs from one of the upper levels. It was perfect. I kept shooting at he descended and got this great shot. This is a very popular tourist destination in Bangkok, so there were other people in the shot as well. I carefully cloned out a man in a bright yellow shirt directly behind the monk, and a woman disappeared from the top of the stairs.
I hand held this picture using a shutter speed of 1/250 at f/16 with 400 ISO.