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236 Afterword

180° WEDDING DAY

One early example of my use of these tools was on my wedding day.
A mere 20 years old, and my bride, Audrey, even younger, we exhib-
ited clear 180° Thinking in choosing the setting for our official wed-
ding album photos.
I figured, “Hey, everybody shoots their wedding pictures at a park
or in a garden, always someplace serene and beautiful. So why not do
something at the far other end of the spectrum?” (I had not yet
unveiled the term 180° Thinking.) “Why not go to a dump?”
Well, thankfully, I didn’t go with my first idea and we didn’t go to a
dump to take the photographs that were to document this most impor-
tant day. We went to a salvage yard.
The National Wrecking Company in Pawtucket, Rhode Island,
became the canvas upon which we asked our friend and soon-to-be-
brother-in-law Jon McNally to capture the spirit of this special day.
The various backdrops, besides the old furnace section of the salvage