January 4, 2012 My trusty old camera is slowly dying, feature by feature. The latest casualty is the flash, so I broke down and got a new camera because I’m going to Egypt tomorrow and then on to China in a few weeks and I didn’t want my old camera to die mid-trip. The new [...]
This is a photo of a bouquet of flowers I received over a month ago, and since I couldn’t bring them home on the plane, I left them on the kitchen table, where they remain even now. They dried themselves out very well, no? Normally I don’t do any photo editing, other than removing pesky [...]
“AP photographer Emilio Morenatti takes pictures as he is carried on a stretcher out of the University of Maryland Medical Center’s R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center to be transferred to the Kernan Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital in Baltimore, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2009. Morenatti, whose left foot was amputated after he was injured by a [...]
I’ve been carrying my camera around for a few years now and I’m REALLY REALLY tired of the lame questions and comments people make when they see I’m not using a tiny digital point-and-shoot camera: 1. You like taking photos huh? (you think??) 2. So you’re a photographer huh? (no, I’m a figure skater!) 3. [...]
What is it with photographers these days? Are they really all terrorists, or does everyone just think they are? Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harrassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We’ve been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious ones. [...]
My sister had a post up on her blog today saying, “Happy World Photography Day!” “August 19th is the day when the photographic process has been made public by French Academy of Sciences in the year 1839. Hence the date has been marked as ‘World Photography Day’, the birthday of photography.” She said, “Cameras are [...]
4,000 U.S. Deaths, and a Handful of Images: The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them dead has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the [...]
I thought I’d posted these before but apparently not, unless I just suck at searching on my own blog. Battlefield and Astronaut Fatalities at Dover Air Force Base Since March 2003, a newly-enforced military regulation has forbidden taking or distributing images of caskets or body tubes containing the remains of soldiers who died overseas. Immediately [...]
Defense chief Gates wants to spend more on U.S. diplomacy: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates renewed his call Tuesday for more spending on U.S. diplomacy and international aid, saying the U.S. government risks “creeping militarization” of its foreign policy by focusing its resources on the Pentagon. With Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in attendance, Gates [...]
In the June 9 issue, a letter in the Opinion section stated that the memorial photo for Sgt. Merlin German was “tasteless” and that it “hurt morale” [“Tactless tribute?”]. As a personal friend of Sgt. German and his family, I beg to differ. Sgt. German’s physical condition at the time of his death was not [...]
This was actually published back in April but someone recently emailed it to me. They serve the same Queen, fight the same foe and lay down their lives with equal valour and sacrifice. But when the fallen heroes of Canada and Britain come home, the welcome is very different. At airbases in both countries there [...]
Via BlackFive: It’s a disturbing picture. The dead Marine is lying on his back, his face damaged beyond recognition because of the blast. But for photojournalist and blogger Zoriah Miller, 32, it was important to capture the daily toll of war in Iraq. “I just feel this war has become so sanitized that it was [...]
The Spoils of War: Pfc. Earl Coffey found a fortune in a palace in Iraq. His decision to steal it derailed his life…He watched as a Bradley Fighting Vehicle rammed and collapsed the wall of a windowless bunker just outside Saddam’s palace. The building concealed bundles of U.S. currency stacked floor-to-ceiling and wrapped in binding [...]
Yesterday I was in my first photo exhibition! It was for any embassy photographer who felt like participating, no professionals, just amateurs. We got prints made, put them on paper backings with a glue stick, and used a label maker for our names. Some people handwrote their names so I tried that but I realized [...]
Miguel Guzman, 21, is eulogized as ‘a hard worker . . . always willing to help.’ He was among four killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Miguel Guzman, who was a mechanic, was killed May 2 in Karma, a onetime insurgent stronghold outside Fallouja — west of Baghdad — that lately had been considered [...]
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