It was just after sunset when I began photographing this raven perched on top of the bell tower of the long abandoned Methodist church in the Bodie ghost town. Using the spot meter, I exposed on the sky to make the church, bird and adjacent telephone pole into a silhouette. I used a fast shutter speed of 1/400th of a second to abstract the scene, fast enough to catch the bird in flight, just as it was pushing its wings down to gain altitude. I show less of both bird and church, leaving the details to the imagination of the viewer. The silhouette expresses yesterday more than today, an appropriate metaphor for a town that has died.