I've been doing news photography for so long now, I can hardly remember when I shot a picture that appeals purely for the aesthetics. This one is really REALLY cliche, but it's still lovely. It's just not original nor very artistic.

It was this kind of photography-- or even more abstract-- that sucked me in back in the mid-1970's.

On this occasion I was looking for a cover photo for our GO! section when I chanced upon this rusty old "donkey engine" at Camp 6 in Pt. Defiance Park. Another shot made a better one for our cover story on "mini museums", but this one kept tugging at my eye.