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DIRECTIONS: Chооse the best аnswer fоr eаch question.An Interview with Michаel YamashitaQ: Is it true that before becoming a photographer, you were an English teacher?[A] Yeah, I spent four years in Japan in the early '70s, and two of those years I was teaching. There was a huge demand in Japan for English. The Japanese studied English at school, but didn't speak much English, so as a native speaker I could help out. It was a great job. [B] I was in Japan at the time to get in touch with my roots, trying to see how Japanese I might be. Growing up in the States with a Japanese name and face, I really never felt 100 percent American because I didn't look like the American majority. We were the only Asian family in the town where I lived. So, after studying history in the States, I decided to go to Japan and have the experience of living there.Q: Did you know any Japanese before you went there?[C] No. I learned the hard way, which was ... working in a company where nobody spoke English. In the beginning, it was tough. The only things I knew were the names of food, since I grew up with Japanese food. Q: And it was in Japan that you bought your first camera. Is that right?[D] I did. Like every amateur, I bought a camera to essentially record what I was seeing and doing, to send pictures back to family and friends. I spent some time learning about it, and I just got really obsessed by the whole process.[E] The more I got into photography, the more I loved it. Every few months I left Japan to renew my visa, and so I went to a different country each time, taking pictures just to show friends and family. As my pictures got better, people told me I should show them to other photographers. Eventually, I met an agent and decided I wanted to be a professional.Q: As a professional photographer, what would you say makes a good photograph?[F] In the case of National Geographic magazine, I like to call them "page stoppers." They are pictures with such great visual impact that the viewer has to stop turning the pages. You're arrested by the framing, the light, the color, or the subject, and you stare at it. Then you're likely to read the captions2 and be drawn into reading the whole story. For me, that is an ideal picture.Q: For photographing a project like Basho's Trail, how much planning is involved?[G] I prepare as much as I can. I read about six different translations of Basho's book, Narrow Road to the Deep North. I thought about what happened on each section of the route: where he talks about the banana leaf, and where on the Mogami River he wrote a poem about swift1 water.[H] So, certain things I was looking for, but others were not so place-specific. Basho mentions the moon many times, so I knew I had to do a moon picture, which sounds easy. But the moon is only full once a month, and the sky may be cloudy. Or, if the moon is rising too early, or too late, I wouldn't be able to see it. But I try my best to be in the right place to get the right subject at the right time.Q: Were there other important moments you remember while doing that article?[I] Well, there's that frog photo. It was in summer the first week I was there. I was shooting some banana leaves under the roof of a Japanese temple. It was pouring rain, and it was beautiful. As I was walking back to the car, I looked down into this little pond and saw a frog sitting on a leaf. So, my job was to get a good picture of it.[J] I started out shooting from the land, but the shot wasn't quite right. Then I got into the water. I was up to my waist in this smelly temple pond, early in the morning, concentrating on a frog and thinking "Thank God the caretakers3 of the temple haven't arrived yet!" I managed to anticipate the moment just before it was ready to jump, and that's when I took the photo. You'll see that the frog is just about to turn to its right, and in the next picture, it was flying.Q: Finally, what do you think it takes to become a great photographer?[K] Well, there is not that much economic motivation, considering the difficulty of selling pictures and getting in the door. What it takes is basically passion; you have to be really obsessed by your craft. Especially today, with the competition being what it is, to be a success you really have to eat and drink photography. It's passion that drives you forward.1 If something is swift, it is quick and rapid.2 A caption is an explanation written next to a photo.3 A caretaker is a person who takes care of some property. According to Yamashita, what is a page stopper?
DIRECTIONS: Cоmplete the sentences using the wоrds in the bоx. conventionаldiminishedmodifiednotwithstаndingtrаits The amount of homework that he completed ____________________ after the first few weeks of the semester. However, after the last quiz, he began to work harder.
DIRECTIONS: Cоmplete the sentences using the wоrds in the bоx. conventionаldiminishedmodifiednotwithstаndingtrаits The cold weather ____________________, Carlos likes living in Alaska.