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Photo editor Mike Davis stops by Seattle

“Light,” photo editor Mike Davis said, “is about more than just the six hours a day that National Geographic photographers work in.” He was joking when he said that, but his…

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And next, he said that strong photographs are built around adjectives and adverbs. Not verbs. It’s a strange concept written out as a sentence, sure. However it became clearer once we saw photos, even a frame before or after, where a quality, a mood or an essential feeling were highlighted — rather than showing things just as they happened.