I tried to hammer home a point this semester in the class I teach at Allegheny. Watch your backgrounds. Its something to really pay attention to because distracting backgrounds can just kill a picture. Being aware of the parts of the picture that are not the subject is what separates the good photographers from the snapshot shooters. I'm often told, 'Oh i have this really great picture!' only to look at it to see they have a really great subject of they captured a peak moment, but they don't really have a great picture. A great picture has everything, light, composition, a moment, and sense some sort of emotion perhaps. In a great picture we don't talk about something needing to be different--a crop, light, distance to subject....etc... They are rare, but when they are there...by god you know it! This picture of Jordan is not one of these 'great' pictures I'm talking about, but I thought it was fun to make this really big tough kid into a flower. And he is a great guy who let me do it and he even laughed a little when we did it. SayerMotter Photograph by Richard Sayer.