One of the cardinal rules of visual story-telling is - avoid redundancies. Today's Tribune had two very similar photographs for the story about Saegertown Elementary School teacher Bob Gulick making good on a bet that he would shave his head if the school raised more than $20,000. The photograph above with Gulick reflected in the mirror was the best photo. I made the mistake of saving two very similar images, I liked them both for different reasons, but they each only told one part of the story. Since we were using two photographs we should've picked another image as the second picture. The picture below was another one saved and this should've been the one used. I have to remember that I have a responsibility to the readers of the paper to give them the best I can. By my not making a clear choice for the lead photograph I left the chance that we wouldn't our readers the best or represent the story in as well rounded a way as we could. I tell my students all the time that editing is one of the hardest parts of photography, we like different pictures for different reason. But that is exactly what we need to avoid, we need to take ourselves out of it and break it down to what communicates the best. Thats what our responsibility is and I need to remind myself of this as often as I can. Having a redundancy didn't ruin the story, it just didn't give the story its due justice. And having the second photo be the one below would've given more people a chance to see the fun that was had---even the Panther looks like he was enjoying himself. Mead