(Continued from previous post.  Don’t read this post first.  Read the previous post first and then read this one next.)

I turn around 180 degrees and this is what I see.  This is Ida from Winnipeg.  Ida is on a motorcycle.  Ida and her band are 3 minutes away from performing on the stage … but right now Ida wants pictures. 

Three minutes pass and the stage door opens and a hurried “we have to go on stage now” proclamation is made.

The shoot is done.  I head back to the truck.

None of what happened tonight would have materialized had I not had the assignment.  I easily could have stayed home.  There would have been no shots.  But it was “Don’t go out with preconceived notions …” that actually gave the right-side of my brain the permission to actually start shooting.