Author: Trent

  • If It's Any Consolation, I Am Going To Shoot Myself After I Kill All Of You | The Onion – America's Finest News Source

    I want all of you to know that I totally empathize with everything you’ll soon be going through. Nobody likes to learn that their lives are about to be snuffed out for no reason save that of random, irrational violence. It’s a terrifying proposition, I know. But everyone’s going to have to sacrifice a little here, and, for what it’s worth, I’m not going to survive this upcoming murder spree any more than you are. So take solace in the fact that, right after I gun you all down next week without warning, I will immediately be shooting myself in the head, as well.

    Remember: We’re all in this crazy mess together

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  • Wooster Collective: The Scaredy Cat Sticker Project

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  • The Long Way There – Portfolio.com

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    photos on commuting by vincent laforet

    Check it out here. via photokaboom

  • +KN | Kitsune Noir » Snapture

    Snapture basically takes the ultra-minimal contorls of the iPhone photo application and beefs it up with some new features. With Snapture you can do things like zoom, tap any button on the phone to take a photo, change your photos to grayscale, or even have a timer

    Check it out here.

  • newsphotoken: And Me Without My Swim Trunks

    One rule of journalism: Don’t become part of the story. That was the reminder that nearly every clever co-worker gave me when I returned to work Wednesday morning.

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  • 俗画 zokuga 俗画: Bryan Patrick

    Congrats to Bryan Patrick for winning the San Francisco Bay Area Photographers Association photog of the year award. Well deserved.

    The Bee put up a gallery of his portfolio

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  • Stefan Ruiz: Africa, Cuba, Rodeo Queens

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    Just recently, I discovered Stefan Ruiz’s quite powerful Africa series, photographs from the Lukole Refugee Camp in Ngara, Tanzania.

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  • Combat Camera Airman receives best in DOD honor

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    A photojournalist from the 1st Combat Camera Squadron here has been recognized as the best in the Department of Defense.

    Staff Sgt. Stacy Pearsall was named Military Photographer of the Year. She received the honor against more than 1,700 entries submitted by her peers from all branches of the U.S. military worldwide.

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  • Shoot! Interview: Antonin Kratochvil

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    I thought I’d post a short Q&A session I was lucky enough to have with Antonin Kratochvil. Kratochvil, if he’s new to you, is a Czech-born American photojournalist. He is also founding member of the VII Photo Agency. His career is rather epic at this point

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  • The Plug – Stranger Photos Have Happened

    I tied a disposable camera to a bench with a sign that read:

    Good afternoon,
    I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I’ll be back later this evening to pick it up.
    Love, Jay / The Plug

    When I retrieved the camera that night, I was happy to find that the entire roll of film had been shot. Below are the photos that were taken.

    Check it out here. Via Zokuga

  • Very Young Millionaire

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    New Rites and Rituals, 2008

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  • Click Update

    Super busy week covering the polygamy raid in Texas, so the usual flow of links has slowed. You can follow my experiences on my tribune blog. I’ll try to keep the Click as current as I can.

  • Can You Trust Autofocus with Your Digital Camera?

    I was testing the sharpness of a couple of Canon lenses the other day when I discovered something that blew me away.
    I got much sharper photos by manually focusing my lenses than if I used autofocus!

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  • The story behind the Pulitzer picture | Reuters.com

    Reuters Bangkok senior photographer Adrees Latif tells how he took the pictures which won him a Pulitzer Prize. The pictures were taken in Myanmar during the protests in September last year and include the photo of Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai being shot.

    “Tipped off by protests against soaring fuel prices, I landed in Yangon on 23 September, 2007, with some old clothes, a Canon 5D camera, two fixed lenses and a laptop.

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  • 2008 Pulitzer Prizes-FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

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    Photos by Preston Gannaway. Pulitzer warded to Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness.

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  • 2008 Pulitzer Prizes-BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY, Works

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    Photo by Adrees Latif of Reuters. A wounded Japanese photographer, Kenji Nagai, lay before a Burmese soldier yesterday in Yangon, Myanmar, as troops attacked protesters. Mr. Nagai later died. Published September 28, 2007.

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  • Keeping His Eye on the Horizon (Line) – Sze Tsung Leong

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    THE soft-colored photographs of Sze Tsung Leong capture contrasting landscapes: the verdant green of Germany; the mirage of shimmering towers in Dubai; the urban geometry of Amman, Jordan; the red tiles roofs of Italy. But always the eye is drawn to the distinct line where sky meets earth.

    In Mr. Leong’s panoramic photographs of major cities and rural landscapes around the world, the horizon line consistently falls in the same place. So when his images are hung side by side — as 62 of them are now at the Yossi Milo Gallery in Chelsea — they create an extended landscape of ancient cities and modern metropolises, desert vistas and lush terrain.

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  • Jury: Photogs Share Blame For Diana Death – PDNPulse

    A British jury has found that Princess Diana’s death in a car accident was the result of negligence on the part of the car’s driver and the paparazzi photographers who were chasing her.

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  • New Website Celebrates 75 years of Nikkor Lenses

    Nikon celebrates the 75th Anniversary of its Nikkor lenses with a new global website: Nikkor.com. The new site showcases the best work from Nikon professionals across the globe through photographer profiles covering everything from weddings, sports, travel, photojournalism and more.

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  • The Dauntless Spirit – Philip Jones Griffiths: 1936-2008

    Peter Howe:

    f you knew Wales, you knew Philip Jones Griffiths. To the end of his life he remained true to his Welshness, which defined him with a power that few environments exert. Both he and his birthplace are rife with contradictions. It is a breathtakingly beautiful land, and relentlessly bleak, a land of strong communities made up of fierce individualists, where physical poverty has produced spiritual richness. Philip’s personality reflected this duality. He was a cynical idealist; a serious man with a playful wit; his mind was analytical but his soul was passionate; profoundly moral he could be wickedly lascivious; he was opinionated but compassionate. The one area of his life that was without contradiction, and which dominated him to his last day, was his craft. He was without compromise, without hesitation and without deviation a photographer, one of the greatest photojournalists this profession has been proud to call its own.

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