applicable over a broad range of momenta, becomes desirable. Local effective field theories based on hadronic degrees of freedom, although attractive for their efficiency, are subject to difficulties when conditions are sufficient to probe characteristics of subhadronic origin[@isgurjaffe]. An ideal perspective on this problem can be gained by sacrificing local interactions in favor of retaining some knowledge of the quark substructure content of the effective hadron fields[@frank94], and is the spirit of the present investigation. In such a treatment, the EM interaction with a pion at tree level in the hadron fields is, for example, illustrated in Fig.\[fig1\]. There, the pion Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes, $\Gamma $, reflect the ability of the internal degrees of freedom to share the transferred momentum, while the quark-photon vertex (QPV), $\Gamma _{\nu }$, contains information about the interaction with a dressed quark, including the production of $q\bar{q}$ vector-meson modes expected from vector-meson dominance or dispersion theory phenomenology. At larger momentum transfers where the effective scale provided by the vector-meson poles has been exceeded, the QPV also provides information about the approach of photon-hadron vertices to asymptotic behavior. A quantitative understanding of the QPV is therefore central to the EM description of hadrons at intermediate momentum scales, 