For UW grad, a picture is worth a thousand words, and a new Ron Howard film

The photograph grabs you immediately. Much of the frame is in darkness, and on the left side, what looks like an IV drip is out of focus. In the lower right-hand corner, in a patch of light, a woman in obvious pain grips the shoulders of a man. Titled “Too Much,” that one photo is among hundreds of thousands that professional photographer Lexia Frank, a Hillsboro native and UW-Madison graduate, has taken in her career. But that one photo has taken her places she never expected to go.