In 1979 I took a job as activities director at a nursing home in Boston. I had just completed a degree in fine arts as a painter. On the day that I first met the residents of the nursing home, I abandoned painting. That is to say, I discarded the brushes and canvas, not the underlying desire to see something in the world around me and then communicate it to others. In this unexpected setting I found my medium. I wanted others to know these people as I did.
From Press Allowed To Cover Return of Dead Soldiers | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source:
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the media was permitted to witness a casket containing the body of a dead soldier arrive on U.S. soil. What do you think?
From It Ain’t Funny Business, but… | PixelatedImage Blog:
I can juggle flaming torches on a 6ft unicycle; my mother bought me my first unicycle for Christmas. The next year she bought me a straitjacket. Christmas around our place was a little weird for a few years there. I think they’re all pretty relieved to be buying me camera gear again. And while I doubt I’ll ever be called on to juggle or do a 2-hour stage show again, my diversion into show-biz, specifically comedy, taught me much that’s transferable. Here’s a few things professional comedy taught me about being a vocational photographer.
Scott Pommier’s interest in photography began when he started using his mother’s semi-automatic SLR to take pictures of his friends skateboarding. Since then, he has shot covers for every major skateboarding publication and now divides his time between his position as a senior photographer for SBC Skateboard magazine, a variety of editorial and commercial jobs, a book project to be completed next year, and spending more hours either behind the wheel or in front of the computer than he ever imagined possible.
You can’t get away with crap pictures so why do you think you can get away with crap sound?
Just recently I’ve heard some appalling examples. Examples that give you no choice but to either switch off the sound or change websites and hope that the sound doesn’t follow you.
From First Photos Published Under New Pentagon Policy on War Dead:
“The military takes it incredibly seriously,” says Joshua Roberts, a freelance photographer based in Washington who covered the transfer for Reuters. “It’s a very formal, very respectful transfer… Hiding it is not really a good thing. It’s good to show it.”