Set alongside the Salmon River in Salmon Idaho, I found, appropriately enough, a sculpture of a life-sized bear confronting a group of leaping salmon. I noticed that someone had incongruously lodged a stone in the mouth of the lead salmon, and I moved in with my long telephoto lens to make it seem as if the salmon was incongruously offering the stone to the huge bear. The sculpture of the bear itself stands upon a bed of actual rocks, which are incongruously larger in scale than the “gift stone” borne in the gaping mouth of the fish. When choosing my camera angle, I carefully positioned the noses of both bear and salmon so that maximum tension flows within the negative space between them. All of these incongruities combine to symbolize the quirky nature of this small town that takes its own name from the river and the fish that inhabit it.