A pile of 30 crab traps stand on a wilderness beach, waiting to be placed in the water. I was drawn to this image because of the layering of colors. The brown and orange traps, along with the sandy beach, are squeezed between a layer of green water at bottom and a layer of green trees at the top. The Alaskan Dungeness Crab season opened the day after I made this photograph, and commercial crab trappers were obviously fully ready for it. They had already piled caches of such traps along the shores of the inlets and channels where the crab were most likely to be found. Dungeness Crab is trapped in eelgrass beds, as well as on the bottom of the bay itself. The day after I made this image, Dungeness Crab was featured at our lodge’s dinner. The crabs had been trapped only a few hours before they were served to us. The meat has a delicate flavor and is slightly sweet.