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Each of the flowers on this weed are about 3/8" tall. The background is a view of the pasture at the University of Florida's Horse Teaching Unit in afternoon sunshine. Of course, if the exposure is 1/125th of a second at f/32 with Kodachrome 25, not much of the ambient-lit background makes it through.

Photography became my primary skill in the visual arts when I was sixteen. I've learned from mentors and teachers: Lamar Philpot, Wallace Wilson, Evon Streetman, Randy Batista, and Laurie Hitzig. Alfred Stieglitz's vociferous defense of photography as an art form in itself appeals to me, though Stieglitz's subjective and sometimes vindictive determinations of who was in and who was out of serious artistic consideration does not. I prefer a mode of photography that puts most of the effort in up-front, before the shutter snaps, and reserve the use of many of the techniques Stieglitz approved of as manipulations to exceptional cases. The primary manipulation of the photographer is to concentrate the attention of the viewer to the same subject...