Washington Post: What the Family Would Let You See, the Pentagon Obstructs Lt. Col. Billy Hall, one of the most senior officers to be killed in the Iraq war, was laid to rest yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery. It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know that. The family [...]
An embassy employee who is also a photography freak is setting up an embassy-wide photography exhibition that will be held somewhere out in the city. She asked me if I wanted to submit some photos but she said we will probably only be able to use five or six each. What?? I’ve taken several thousand [...]
Silent Drill Platoon in Times Square …It all started at 2:30 a.m. at 46th and Broadway, with a line of Marines lit only by the glaring displays of Times Square. They came to film another portion of the America’s Marines commercial…Then it was on to The Early Show at CBS, 11 blocks away. The Marines [...]
I don’t usually go places for the express purpose of taking photos but I did recently with two other people. Both of them are photography freaks; one because she’s simply obsessed and even wore a National Geographic safari vest, and the other because he has a better Nikon than me and brought an ancient Pentax [...]
Back at the base that night, the editing and censoring process began. The embed regulations had recently been changed to say that no photos of identifiable wounded soldiers could be published without their written permission. Nor of identifiable soldiers killed in action. The explanation was that this rule was in place to protect the soldiers [...]
Assault On Sangin You’re either way too close to the action or way too far away. There is very little middle ground. Most of the time the soldiers and I are doing our best to become one with the earth making it difficult to see or shoot anything. Later, while editing, I realize people firing [...]
Last fall somebody sent me an email asking about photography: “what type of camera you use, why you chose that particular camera. What do you look for in subjects?” Um..somehow I never got around to answering it. Hopefully she still reads this thing and hopefully I will get around to posting more of the zillions [...]
So you don’t forget I like to take photos in addition to writing, I’m going to try to remember to post a new photo each day. None of them will be recent yet, sorry. I’m going to start by pulling random ones from my photography website so if you somehow found the time to browse [...]
I finally got around to checking my hotmail account today and I had the following email in my inbox: Subject: Enemies in the mediaWatching a c-span show about new books these people came on. They have been living with the “insurgents” (terrorists) and have now published a book with plenty of photographs. Of course they [...]
Evil Example # 1: From time to time, my younger brother puts riddles on his church youth group’s online forum for the other people to puzzle over. Normally, he posts a riddle that semi-intelligent humans have a good chance of solving, but this time the Evil Knob inside his brain was set on “EVIL OVERFLOW” [...]
Somehow or another word got out that I have a fancy camera and that’s why today I found myself 20 odd feet up in the air on a tiny little platform hooked onto the prongs of a forklift. The heavy equipment Marines recently repainted the front of their building and one of the SSgts asked [...]
A sergeant friend whom I got to know well at the rifle range last year is currently on a base very close to mine. He rotated to a new duty station before we both got deployed, so I didn’t know he was out here until he snuck up on me in the chow hall. We’ve [...]
I had to issue out a machine gun today so after I did all the paperwork I drove over to the lot where they pack up gear for shipping. The Marine that came to help asked me to do all the usual stuff like give him the paperwork and clear the weapon. But as he [...]
In all the years I’ve been taking photographs, I’ve never had any serious problems with someone getting offended because I took a picture of them. I’ve had shy Honduran kids grin and run away, I’ve had South African adults throw towels over their faces, and I’ve had plenty of Americans of all ages dive for [...]
Yesterday I read a couple news articles describing how us lazy Americans are eating so much food these days that the country’s collective obesity is reducing our lifespan for the first time in 200 years. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41324-2005Mar16.html This, and the fact that I just came back from Africa, spawned the dream I had last night about [...]
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