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I can argue that I'm doing more web coding than most photographers would do. That counts for something.

We can pretend this is a picture of me coding, but really it's of me checking into Facebook on my friend's computer at our hostel in Athens. Photo by that friend, Seth Davis, in June 2010.

The camera already provides a rigid frame, and often it's a pretty constraining one. Human sight is so panoramic, and so narrowing that range to a 3:2 box already takes some of the majesty and breadth out of a landscape or a piece of action. Why, you might ask, would you limit a photo even further? Three reasons: More story, more depth, and more focus.

The Plaza de España in Seville, Spain (regrettably dredged for renovations for this photo on Mar. 27, 2010) was a filming site for the Naboo sequences in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, as well as a site for Lawrence of Arabia.

Since 1901, the IU-Purdue men's basketball rivalry has shaped what it means to be a college basketball fan in Indiana. You can try to be neutral and say, "I root for every college team from Indiana," but chances are you're talking to another Indiana basketball fan, and they'll know you're lying. With symbols as iconic as Gene Keady's painted-on hair and Bob Knight throwing a chair, you can't help but favor one over the other. The only difference is the zealotry with which you cheer and/or jeer.

From the IU-Purdue basketball game on Feb. 23, 2011 in Bloomington. I never went to an IU-Purdue basketball game when I was younger, but if I had, I probably would have been this kid.