The politicians aren’t in town - and you’re not into shooting seasonal sports.  So what other stories are there to cover - especially now in the spring?
   This is the season of bad weather in many areas.  Bad weather producing damage that distant big-city newspapers will want photos of.  And producing small-plane wrecks for pilots who apparently never heard the saying that “there are no old bold pilots!”
   A severe storm here in the Burlington, N.C. area several years ago produced memorable photos for me to shoot - rather than a large tree limb on somebody’s roof.  One of best news photos I ever shot was of the top quarter of a utility pole - snapped off by high wind and left hanging by attached wires (below).  Power poles snapped a quarter of the way from the top and supported by attached wires were common from that storm - and one of such a pole standing in a major street I only couldn’t get a great photo of due to poor background.
   But the sky made a great background for photos of the broken-off tops of poles hanging by attached wires.

Top quarter of utility pole hangs by attached wires after severe storm, Burlington, N.C.