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It's a fact of photographic life that some of the most exciting lighting conditions are also the most challenging. Bright sunlight produces intense colors but also areas of very deep shadow, and with heavily backlit subjects the difference in brightness between the highlights and shadows may be so great that one or the other must be sacrificed. And yet, the conventional...

The scenery rolls by quickly, too quickly really, to take in the fullness of any one moment. One scene quickly becomes part of the one just rushing by, which too quickly becomes part of another. Vast stretches of farmland push against distant mountain ranges, workers labor freshly plowed and watered fields, burros pull plows, squat villages flash by, then in quick succession...

Evan Cate
Saint Francis High School
Mountain View, California

Range Of Interest
Evan, a junior at Saint Francis, has studied photography at the school and taken a summer class at a local community college, but he's not sure that taking photography courses is the way to go. "I don't think there's any set way to...