While I have earned my living as a straight documentary photographer, I was influenced as a young boy by fiction writers. Even on documentary shoots for National Geographic I would read fiction to get a real feel for a culture. Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabelle Allende and Carlos Fuentes shaped my psyche for Central and South America work as much as the factual research I had to do. Fiction always gave me a layer of the tactile and the essence of a story. Twain’s line from Huckleberry Finn ” It was late and it smelt late” always stuck with me as a “picture”. So for the last two or three years I’ve become very interested in “writing” fiction with my photography. So far I only have a handful of fiction pictures as here. Although my fiction is still documentary in a way. Real people in real time in real places no makeup no actors yet with a visual twist of fantasy. All coming out of my head of course. I’ll publish here about three of these in the next few days. Some controversy is inevitable. Yet all of us must explore new ground all the time. Anything consistently repeatable and popular just isn’t the “edge” I love as both a viewer and a creator. This was shot on the Nags Head Fishing Pier. No props no lights. Part of my upcoming book of fiction BeachGames out whenever I can finish. #obx #beachgames #nagshead