Once again, I move in very closely with a 14mm super wideangle lens, this time making a grotesque portrait of a pile of red snapper being unloaded from the freezers of a fishing trawler in Fort Bragg’s harbor. The slight tilt of the lens allows me to deliberately distort the size of the heads closest to the lens at the bottom of the frame. The unseeing eyes bulging from the fiery red bodies are enormous, offering us a vision of hell itself. The focal point of the image, however, is the expression on the head partly obscured by a tail. The eye is glazed over, and the gaping mouth seems to scream at us. The ultimate incongruity: as hellish as this scene may seem, these fish have been harvested to bring profits to an industry, and pleasure to those who delight in eating red snapper.