On slow news days we often send a photographer out to "find some wild art", meaning some picture that can stand alone on a newspaper page without a story.

Having been thusly dispatched on a recent warm day I snooped around the little park along the White River next to the Sumner library. No one was there, save Library Assistant Sally Alger who was keeping up with her work during her lunch break.

Walking around her, but not so close as to catch her attention, I didn't see any interesting angle and doubted that I could make a photo of her worthy of our pages.

Then I considered looking down through the tree's foliage at her. It seemed worth a try, and it might be fun to be paid to climb a tree.

I couldn't climb over her without being detected, so I approached her and asked first if she minded being photographed for the paper. Like nearly all folks out in public, she didn't mind at all.

Leaving the camera bag and my second camera body on the ground, I was able to maneuver to several different vantage points from about 20 feet up.

As you can see, my favorite angle was with several parallel branches crossing the frame.