This remains one of my favorite photos from my time in Omaha. I can’t quite pinpoint why, but here are some ramshackle thoughts. I’ve always been drawn to isolated objects and this definitely one: an old lone truck in a vacant lot. I like how the whole scene frames the truck with some mirroring that doesn’t quite match up. The trees sort of mirror the building; the cement kinda mirrors the sky. The no parking sign sort of mirrors the City View sign in the background. And in the middle of it all, an off-kilter parked pickup.

This is one of those photos that will probably always bother me. I’ve never quite been happy with the post-processing. Is it too blue? Too orange? I’ve hit my head against the wall and at some point you just have to give up. This one’s going in Omaha Gothic.