What you don't show in a photo can be as important as what you do show. This is a sunrise picture, but you can only see the effects of the sunrise. The sky is blue with golden clouds in it, but you only see a hint of it in the reflection in the river. And I was standing on the most obvious subject in the area -- a beautifully restored covered bridge -- photographing not it, but the scene before me, which I was responding to most strongly. The important thing was that the bridge afforded me a somewhat elevated vantage point, a perspective I often prefer.

Another good example of this "implicit" technique is Image #91103, where I use the reflectivity of water to imply what's happening outside the frame of the image. By doing this, the image gradually reveals itself to the viewer, much as it did to me when I was there. Rather than explicitly showing everything at once, which can be somewhat confusing and overwhelming to the viewer's eye, a more implicit approach can provide a dominant/subordinate hierarchy of visual elements which takes some time to unfold, thereby rewarding the viewer who takes the time to truly see an image.