A full moon rising behind the Morris Island Lighthouse, seen from the water.

The moon is sitting directly on top of the lantern room — balanced on it, touching. An alignment like that does not hold for long, and it is the whole photograph. The tower is banded brick with warm low light still on it, standing on its base out in open water. The sky is pale blue going peach, with thin cloud drawn across in flat bands. The water in front is calm.

Quiet, and vertical. It does not need to be large to work.