Getting up there - a story of two images
Some ideas come to me gradually as I build and tweak them. Others slap me in the face, demanding attention. This idea falls into the latter category.
For our magazine at work, I had to take a photo of a farm couple who grow seed wheat. An easy enough photo to take if there's a nice field of wheat in which to take it. Unfortunately, I was shooing in November, when winter wheat in Oklahoma is only unkempt-lawn high, and it looks like grass to the casual observer.
The idea that smacked me suddenly was to get on top of one of the grain bins sitting in their yard and shoot down into it, with the farm family in the bottom of a bin with a touch of wheat. Throw two lights in the bottom and shoot.
This had a few base-level requirements, however. First, the family would have to be willing to let me crawl up on a grain bin, then be patient as I fiddled with lights and focal lengths. Next, I needed a bin with just a few bushels of wheat in the bottom - enough to cover the concrete floor, but a small enough amount so we could get into the bin and walk into it. Lastly, I had to be able to get two umbrellad lights to fire using a speedlight on top of my camera.
Thankfully, these three requirements came together and we were off to the races, with me on top of the bin while the couple craned their necks upward to look at me. 
At the end of the day, I got two shots that stood out - one where I zoomed in on the couple and the other that I shot ultrawide, with the top of the grain bin visible. One got used for the magazine cover, and the other was used inside.
I know I have my favorite (which is mainly an emotional attachment, as it often is), but I'll leave you to pick your favorite.
