Light, shadow, scale incongruity, and rhythmic repetition combine here to symbolically express the nature of photographic challenge. One of my tutorial students, photographing the park surrounding Scottsdale’s Civic Plaza, is dwarfed by a series of long shadows that engulf her. They lean to the left while she aims her camera to the right, ignoring their presence. Using a 14mm wideangle lens, I am able to move in on the scene to make detail visible, yet still retain the sweep of scale here. The lower half of the image is filled with dark grass, contrasting to the white wall that provides the backdrop here. The great pool of darkness underscores the nature of the challenge itself – photography itself is a journey of discovery, a journey through the unknown. Photographers often use a trial and error approach to find their ideas. I also remove the green tint that emerged from the ground and smudged the wall, converting the image to black and white and thereby keep it true to the origins of the medium itself.