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I got a flat tire
I don’t get it… first the laptops and now a flat tire. It’s almost the worst thing that can happen, especially after I had just come home from shooting the University of New Mexico football game until 12am and had to be up at 5am for a marathon. Being a young hungry intern, you don’t...
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Postcards from the road to ABQ
While I was driving over to ABQ, as I tend to do, I jotted a few my thoughts on the scraps of paper within arms reach. Here’s a few of the sights and sounds I noticed on the road to Albuquerque… -The way it worked out, to cross over to Arizona I had to cross...
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Time out Tuesdays: The Shock Doctrine
Welcome back to Time out Tuesdays. In 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...
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Our first multimedia
The University of New Mexico Lobo’s charged the field in their home opener against the New Mexico Aggies and we decided to give it the old Joe Wise college try. Click the image to check it out. Fellow ABQ intern Morgan Petroski suggested it after realizing it’s most likely the biggest game of the season...
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Mercury News Photo gets a new look
Yet another redesign over at the merc, there’s something to this whole self-taught thing that I have yet to learn. I was feeling a little something for home and decided to check out the local news, wowza, someone’s been busy! While there take a look at SF Fashion Week (there’s a really awesome shot at...
What is truth?
As journalist, our stories go into the paper and inform the public today, but in time it becomes history and if that history is built on lies, then we become a nation of lies. But how do we define truth and when does something become truth? We once believed that using leeches as a medical...
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Less pin-up, more set-up
I’ve never had cable TV before, but at my new place I’ve been watching it a bit and I’ve noticed there are a lot of advertisements with scantily clad women and commercials of models having their picture taken. My roommate also buys a bunch of tuner magazines and these always have scantily clad women all...
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Time out Tuesdays
Welcome to Time out Tuesdays, where we stop for a moment and take a break from our hectic daily assignments and blistering pace of deadlines, errands, reporting and trying to remember to slip a lunch in there and instead take a deep breath and remind ourselves why we do this by peeping some inspiration. It’s...
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Vanity and fairness?
I’ve been away for some time, running here and there and everywhere, but I finally got a chance to check out Vanity Fair’s July issues with the 20 different covers with various people in the public eye all posing and strutting for their support of Africa. Hmm…. it’s cool and all, but one thing… how...
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Another one bites the dust
No I’m not talking about Alberto Gonzales and the mass exodus of the Bush administration, I’m talking about my laptop battery. Yup, it can’t hold a charge anymore, and I’ve been very limited in my online time. Darn. I thought that only happened to Apple folks, seriously how many of you have not had to...
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Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?
*Warning! Today’s post deals with some intense social issues and may not be suitable for anyone. If you’re hoping for the usual zany post on SLR today, I’m afraid this one isn’t it. It started out that way, but didn’t end up that way. I have hesitated publishing this for some time, afraid that my...
