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By BONNIE PRICE LOFTON
Rappahannock New* Contributing Writer
Four visits this month to Rappahannock County High School by National Geographic photojoumalist Chris Johns have left dozens of * teenagers reflecting on new ways of taking photographs, telling stories and saving the environment.
Mr. Johns first visited the yearbook staff and showed them stunning slides he had taken around his former home in Oregon. He explained that you don't have to leave home and go to . exotic locales to take good photos. In everyone's daily lives, there are stories to be told and photos to be taken to help tell the stories.
"It’s a matter of having the vision to see beyond the obvious," Mr. Johns told the students.
Speaking next to the journalism class, Mr. Johns sought to inspire the students to embark on a quest for ~ truth. He illustrated his points with - mostly glorious, but sometimes sobering, photos of Africa. • He read aloud a quotation that the journalism teacher, Cynthia Cumins, had tacked on her wall — "Somewhere in each of us are a mixture of light and of darkness, of love . and of hate, of trust and of fear." (Jean Vanier) — and passionately argued that exacting, dedicated journalists are needed to affirm the light, to combat evil.
"There are bad people out there, waiting to take it (everything good) . away," said Mr. Johns, offering a couple of, distressing stories to drive his point home. "If nobody cares, if nobody votes, if nobody reads, if nobody is aware, over time we could lose it all." ,
He stressed the need tp balance the bad news with the good, so that people
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