We were planning a weather story for the day after Christmas, possibly with snow pack numbers so I had photographed an interesting scene of Burch Mountain and was heading home when I came upon Kelly Horner plowing snow.

Now it wasn’t the first person I saw doing this but what made it a photograph was the way the sun illuminated him and the snow. He was backlit by sunlight and the background was dark, with the sky and the house in the shade. If he hadn’t been plowing in the sun, out by the street, it would have been a dull and uninteresting photograph.