Thinking you’re done because you’ve moved your photos onto a DVD is not a good policy to take; it’s a mistake. And the reason is that the lifespan of DVDs varies from 5 to 100 years, according to testing. And if you leave it on your hard disk, well, hard disks only last five years, generally.
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“Cops are like a doctor that gives you aspirin for a brain tumor, except that the cop would rather cure it with a blackjack.”
“A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock.”
“The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips.”
“His smile was as stiff as a frozen fish.”
“He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel.”
And, a personal favorite: “It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.”
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One of the reasons I started this blog was to share my photographic experiences with other photographers. A major part of that experience is the business side of photography and in times like these how we, as photographers, as freelancers, as journalists deal with our clients is the of the utmost importance. Placing a value on our time, or vision, our creativity is getting harder and harder to do with magazines cutting budgets and work drying up.
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If you have the slightest interest in computer drawing tablets, you need to see this thing.
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we decided to talk with last year’s grant recipient, Beijing-based documentary photographer Sean Gallagher, about his winning project, tips on submissions, and how the grant has impacted his work.
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Yesterday’s remix challenge — to mock the ridiculous new “anti-terrorism” posters the London police have put up that tell you to spy on your neighbors — was a smashing success.
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The White family has lived outside of Whitesburg, Ky., for generations.
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CLICK NOTE: Great to see this amazing shot get a first place. Only an award of excellence from POYi? Come on!photo by Eric Kayne/Houston Chronicle
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“Every minute, every hour, pregnant women die in Sierra Leone,” says Amadu Sesay, brother of Jemelleh Saccoh who arrived with her aunt at Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown with pregnancy complications for an emergency Caesarean section.
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Tom Arndt’s Minnesota is a book forty years in the making. These thirteen black and white images by the native Minnesotan are selected from among the 100 plates in his new book, what he calls “a poem to my home state.”
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At a second look, however, you can feel there’s something strange about the photos, although you do not know what.
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Fighting between rebels and the government has left tens of thousands of refugees desperate for international aid in Congo.
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In the early morning of October 20, 2006, six days before his 21st birthday, the Humvee Iraqi translator Diyar al-Bayati was riding in during a routine patrol came under attack by a roadside bomb and an ambush.
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TRAPPED: The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into the default mental health facilities. The system designed for security is now trapped with treating mental illness and the mentally ill are often trapped inside the system with nowhere else to go. This project goes inside the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit at the Kentucky State Reformatory to see how a state is meeting the needs of this growing population.
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Alice Gabriner, chief picture editor and acting director of photography for Time, will become White House photo editor and deputy director for the photo office. Time has now churned through three directors of photography in less than three years under managing editor Richard Stengel.
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It is also interesting that by submitting photos to the official McDonald’s Flickr photo pool you are basically giving McDonalds a free unlimited irrevocable license to use your photographs any way they’d like to both now and in the future.
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Canon’s new DSLR, the 500D, is the latest in a line of hybrid still/video DSLRs, joining Canon’s own 5DMkII, Nikon’s less capable D90 and Panasonic’s GH1. This trend is obviously set to continue, but do we want it?
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