An instant favorite

We've used the photo at left in a few banner headers in email and on our web pages. I'd set out to take a photo of the side of a brook trout in fall colours. We landed a couple of nice fish but the lighting just wasn't right. This nice male brook trout was landed as the sun came out on a stunning October day. As the fish rested in the netI snapped a few macros with a darker exposure. I thought I'g gotten a couple of nice shots of rich color but didn't think to look at them until later in the evening. I hadn't even realized that the net created a wonderful shadow effect, much less that all the red dots lined up in the shadows. A little stroke of luck!