 McNeil's sequence of photographs titled "Fly By Night Mythology" was well received.Emeritus Professor of American Literature, Mick Gidley, commented that the sequence "represents both recovery of history and, photographically, creation "through revision"" in a manner that "frames in photographs - both old and new - a national myth that incorporates the first Americans".The sequence features a series of archive photos from McNeil's family history of growing up in Anglo-American culture juxtaposed with images of his Tlingit tribe members, as a representation of his own mixed ancestry and of the relationship between the two histories.