Every once in awhile I try to change the way I photograph. I look at people's work and realize how many ways there are of doing things. Two photographers can stand side by side and snap a picture at virtually the same time and get two completely different results. I never feel comfortable with my work---I feel I do a good job and I work hard, but I always feel I could do better. Sometimes I push this notion by trying to change my way of making pictures. I remember the first time I consciously tried to this it resulted - eventually - in the best period of work I'd ever had. I've then since tried to do this several more times since and each time I end up learning many things - usually through failures or near hits. Here are some pictures from the last couple days that I think are near hits, a couple I like alot, like the falling pole vaulter I took only about two hours ago. I'm hoping to find a way to photograph these edges of moments or edges of the frame of the camera and worry less about the center. I also want to try to find the fringes of the story. Its not clear to me what I mean by this, but I hope to find this way none-the-less and hopefully make it work. If not, nothing is lost, just tried and not found. Meadville Tribune photos by Richard Sayer