12.16.2007

As deputy director of photography, Dave was the heart of The Sun’s photo department, and its staff was his family. Affable and easy going, he could be counted on to take on any task with a smile

Via the flickr blog, your flickr account now has detailed stats for images and your photostream, with info such as referrers, so you can see where your photos are getting linked from.

We’ve introduced a new feature for our pro members: stats!

Dug up from the lightstalkers archive, Sion Touhig posted a great, no-nonsense, layman’s summary of copyright and what it means to photographers, especially in regards to websites such as Facebook, Flickr, and other sites where users submit photos.

In the end, what counts for The Times is whether photographs of a semi-nude teenager with a certain Lolita quality to them are appropriate for the newspaper, regardless of their artistic merit.

Bill Burke’s legendary book I Want to Take Picture originally published by Nexus Press in 1987 has been re-issued in a facsimile edition by Twin Palms for 2007.