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CPOY 2008 winners announced
The annual contest marking the best work coming out of college photographers announced their picks for 2008. A lot of familiar names on there and a few really gripping images to. Although some of the images left me scratching my head, I won’t name names but how it is in one breath we denounce overdoing...
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Organizing photos goes all Philip K. Dick
I don’t write about technology often, I know, this coming from the guy that posts about video-hosting websites, new cameras, RAW processing and Microsoft’s table computer thing, but honest I don’t do it often, check! Anywho I was looking at the Natchway speech from the TED awards again, and I saw this other video on...
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Time out Tuesdays: Modest
Welcome back to Time out Tuesdays, a continuing effort to share the stories that resonate with me and to keep myself constantly spelunking for the very best in photojournalism week after week. Every week, I’ll post up a new photo story, video, picture or multimedia piece that I think gets it right and is worth...
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Time out Tuesdays: How we Met
Welcome back to Time out Tuesdays, a continuing effort to share the stories that resonate with me and to keep myself constantly spelunking for the very best in photojournalism week after week. Every week, I’ll post up a new photo story, video, picture or multimedia piece that I think gets it right and is worth...
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Old media using new media to cover the SoCal fires
If you visit Google Maps you might notice something new. A pair of little red text-based hyperlinks that map out all the important information on the SoCal fires engulfing San Diego, the southern border and parts north of and surrounding LA. It’s all there. Where to go to evacuate, where to take your animals, where...
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Last night I dreamt of my portfolio
It’s true… sadly. I was actually dreaming of sitting in a room staring at a wall of images and there were earthquakes every so often and every time the walls shook, different pictures would fall off the wall and other ones would fly on to it. It was crazy, like some Calvin Kline ad from...
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What is my vision?
Over the past couple weeks, well 2, but 2 is a couple… unless your a weirdo, are you a weirdo… now where was I… Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been sending e-mails and collections of pictures around to people I’ve gone to in the past, have worked with me, have had some role...
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Time out Tuesdays: Sad Lamp
Welcome back to Time out Tuesdays, a continuing effort to share the stories that resonate with me and to keep myself constantly spelunking for the very best in photojournalism week after week. Every week, I’ll post up a new photo story, video, picture or multimedia piece that I think gets it right and is worth...
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Yo Canon fools, where my rebates at?
Ok, I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting for Canon to start up their fall rebate program so I can pick up some much needed gear and still nothing. I seem to recall them starting it up in September in the past, but when that came and went I figured maybe October. They did start...
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Newspaper’s biggest failure and for some reason we continue to ignore it
The biggest failure of the newspaper industry has been failing to change and adapt with its audience. We all say that readership is down and that newspapers are dying (a moment of silence for our brothers and sisters at the Dallas Morning News) and frankly subscribers are dying (old age) and we aren’t getting new...
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Time out Tuesdays: Love in the first person
Welcome back to Time out Tuesdays, a continuing effort to share the stories that resonate with me and to keep myself constantly spelunking for the very best in photojournalism week after week, I’ve decided to start this new feature. Every week, I’ll post up a new photo story, video, picture or multimedia piece that I...
