April 26, 2011 Scenes from China Boston.com’s The Big Picture posted a roundup of daily scenes from China. Everyday, ordinary things – what does your world look like today? Categories Good Work
April 25, 2011 Rich Clarkson on His Own Sports Photography Catching up on my photo blogs … another from the Denver Post with images and commentary from Rich Clarkson, arguably one of the two deans of sports photography over the last 50 years. Clarkson has probably trained more great sports shooters then everyone else combined. Categories Photojournalism
April 25, 2011 Vietnam Revisited The deaths of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros last week have a lot of people revisiting the idea of war photography. Michael Johnston at The Online Photographer pointed back to a photo gallery from a year ago by the Denver Post’s Captured blog. The collection of images looks at the war in Vietnam on the 35th anniversary of the fall... Categories Photojournalism
April 23, 2011 Naming Conventions My students think it’s a silly thing, naming conventions. Does it really matter? Yes, yes it does. Search will only get you so far in finding images (and they’re not great on meta data at the start of a semester). Plus, if I can’t find their assignment I can’t critique it. Which just made this a little funnier for me. Categories Tech Talk
April 23, 2011 Collaborations Between Writers and Photographers Dan Zak at the Washington Post has a piece up on the value of writers working with photojournalists on local stories. There are some reporters who, no matter the time of day, if they called and said, “I got something here …” I just went. And, of course, there were others that could offer me large amounts of cash and... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism
April 22, 2011 Flash in Class I usually reserve the big flash talks for the fall Advanced Photojournalism class, but we had questions in all of the classes over the last few weeks, so we decided to play a bit during class. Part of this was initiated by conversations about the Flash Bus stop in Atlanta a few weeks ago, part of it came out of... Categories Tech Talk
April 22, 2011 Jobs I Want Not that I don’t love this job, but if my world were to collapse, I think I’d throw my name at this job opening at KING-TV in Seattle. Why? Read the language … evangelize … inspire … encourage … empower … affect change. Who wouldn’t want to have that on their business card? (Thanks to … um … everyone who... Categories At Work/Business & Industry
April 22, 2011 It’s Not About an Addiction to Danger Over at The Guardian, Sean Smith talks about why photojournalists have to put themselves in danger. War photographers don’t do this because they’re addicted to danger. They’re just like any journalist who wants to do their job well, and they see no romance in it. You certainly think about the risks – last year, Sunday Mirror photographer Phil Coburn lost... Categories Business & Industry/Journalism
April 21, 2011 The Mountain Workshops – Oct. 18-22 The Mountain Workshops are considered to be one of the best out there, well worth getting on your radar screen. From their press release: Final plans for The Mountain Workshops 2011 are coming together! It will be held in Somerset, Kentucky Oct. 18 – 22. We will begin accepting applications on-line on July 1. The prices for the workshops are:... Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Journalism
April 20, 2011 NPR on Hondros, Hetherington and the Toll of Conflict Photography NPR’s Jackie Lyden writes about the deaths and lives of Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington. Categories Journalism