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Drawing The Line

Posted in final salute, opinion, photographers, photography, photojournalism, war photography on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Imagine that you are a photojournalist covering a US marine patrol in Afghanistan. Everything is going great and the pictures are rolling in… that is until the patrol is attacked and a marine is mortally wounded. You are then faced with a dilemma. Do you continue to take images of the dying marine? Associated Press Photojournalist [...]

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Top Ten?

Posted in Vietnam, blogs, opinion, photographers, photographs, photography, photojournalists on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A blog post by photojournalist Zoriah Miller got my attention recently. The post contained a top ten of photojournalists of all time produced by the website Digital Photography Basics in which Zoriah had come sixth. Very nice i thought, but then I noticed that Don McCullin was in seventh place (yeah right!!) and a few problems started [...]

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Living the Dream

Posted in business, education, opinion, photography, realism on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The car pulled up to the traffic lights. I could see the art building that for two years had been my place of learning. That was all history now. I was heading back to Yorkshire and an uncertain future. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye i spotted something. A car had pulled up [...]

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Technique… not tools

Posted in 35mm, blogs, digital, equipment, film, opinion, photography on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

How do some of these photo bloggers find time to post daily? Even at the peak of my posting, on my other photoblog creation, i only managed 27 posts out of 31 day period, and that was a one time event. I suppose i was fanatically keen on blogging at the time, although that ‘honeymoon’ period didn’t [...]

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