I lectured to my class today about working a story/assignment. How as photographers we investigate many possibilities to find the right images to tell the story. Its not as simple as saying--just take hundreds and you'll get a good one--though that statement has some merit--the idea of working a story is to take hundreds of good ones in search of 'the one.' I remember this assignment. It was a presentation on birds of prey and when I showed up the lights were off and the presentation was a slideshow with all the lights off. I shot a few frames of kids using just the light of the slide reflecting off the screen but felt those wouldn't work out too well(and I couldn't check the LCD screen because this was back in the days of film). So I went around to the back of the classroom and really thought I wouldn't get a picture out of this assignment when I saw this one kid with a shaved head and cool ears and I positioned myself behind him just as the slide showing how an eagle is the American symbol. I wasn't satisfied that this picture told the story very well, but I was happy that I got the picture. Back then we were a photo newspaper and we used feature pictures on the front page. This picture was chosen for the next day's Page 1 and in the cutline I was able to tell the story about how a class learned a little about eagles and hawks at a local school. Meadvi