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V O L . X X I X N O. X I X 80 Fact Book / Doing Business in Maine red J. Field is a photojournalist who has com- pleted more than 15,000 newspaper and mag- azine assignments. He has been a staff photogra- pher at newspapers in Maine and Massachusetts, becoming photo director at two of them. He has done long term projects (greater than one year) for Harvard, Boston College and Bowdoin and has taught photojournalism at the University of South- ern Maine for 21 years. He has worked for dozens of newspapers and magazines all over the US and beyond. Fred is the author of Maine Places, Maine Faces, a photojournalistic tribute to Maine and her proud people. He has earned state, regional, national and international awards for his photojournalism. Light, camera, moment! S t o r y a n d p h o t o s b y F r e d J . F i e l d F I 'm Fred Field, a photojournalist shooting images for Mainebiz stories. Tim Greenway shoots the lion's share of Mainebiz assignments while I'm known as the 'road warrior' shooting many of their distant Maine assignments. I really love the state and her people, so the road trips are always a blast. Mainebiz editor Peter Van Allen asked me to say a few syllables about photography and the images on these three pages. "Lights, Camera, Action!" It's a famous Hollywood expression. It's stereotypically shouted just before a movie scene is filmed. For photojournalists I think the exclamation should be modified a bit to become: "Light, Camera, Moment." I'll explain. Light: It is the essence of photography. It's a Greek word meaning writing with or drawing with light. Understand light and you're on your way to better pictures. Soft, beautiful, diffuse light is the way to go and this is most often naturally found near dawn and dusk. Camera: It sounds obvious, but the camera is a pivotal element. If you're shooting digitally, I sug- gest a camera with at least 10 megapixels; these cameras are relatively affordable and easy to find. e more pixels the better because more pixels means you can enlarge an image without apprecia- bly degrading the quality. Moment: e moment extends beyond the timing of the photograph's capture. Capturing a meaning- ful moment is what it's all about. For pictures to speak to people they need to have inherent depth. ey need to have something to make them special and/or distinctive. Hopefully each Maine moment here will speak to you in some way. P H OTO E S S AY Old Orchard Beach is the place to be on a hot mid-July afternoon. The population of OOB can swell from 8,900 in the winter to more than 75,000 on a hot Summer day.