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         Lynn Saville is an American photographer born in 1950. As noticed below in just three photos, she is most well known for her nighttime urban landscape photographs. Despite only being a semester into my first photography class, I understand the difficult nature of taking pictures at night. Between low/high light situations, determining ISO settings, and producing visually interesting images, a task seen tricky during the day then becomes a whole different understanding at night. Quoted in a few newspaper pieces, Saville describes producing nighttime landscapes as a way to depict colors and shadows that otherwise wouldn't appear in daytime landscapes. Below are a few of my favorites.  Moon Over Brooklyn, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York          The first photograph that caught my eye in Saville's most recent work was this shot above Brooklyn. Interestingly, I like how she titled the work after the moon, although I think that the...