It was a slow night Tuesday and I decided to drive around town searching for stand alone photographs, what we call pictures that don’t have a specific story that runs with them but rather a caption. I’m usually looking for people doing something, or animals doing something, or patterns, or just about anything out of the ordinary.

When I drove past Travis Opel’s house on Northeast 3rd Street, it looked like he was getting fish ready to dry on top of a smoker. Something interesting… but what the photographer in me saw was spectacular light. I turned around, introduced myself, and noticed the hide he was working on over his garbage tote. Better than fish, even better light because it was twilight and I’d get a hint of dark blue in the sky in the background.

I was pretty happy with the result in today’s paper.