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Ossington Avenue, for instance, used to be down-and-out, but start-up restaurants and bars are revitalizing the street. We asked local writer Lisa Rundle to report on it for our Scene feature."

We asked local writer Lisa Rundle to report on it for our Scene feature." Also featured: Micah Toub on Doublenaut, a trio of young graphic artists who are creating edgy posters for bands like Modest Mouse and Green Day, and Denise Balkissoon on artist Charlie Patcher's million-dollar gallery reno in the heart of Chinatown.

That's one reason why the feature photography field remains comparatively uncrowded, despite its obvious advantages over spot news coverage. It's easier for the cameraman to come up to the standards of news photography than to those of feature photography. There are many photographers perfectly capable of doing features, and who would like to do them, who never get into the field for the simple reason that they don't ever see the opportunities all around them for feature pictures. They lack the knack, something akin to the "nose for news" mentioned in the previous chapter, to recognize feature picture material.