• Three more photojournalists are joining the White House photo staff: Chuck Kennedy, who currently shoots for of McClatchy-Tribune News Service; Lawrence Jackson, currently of the Associated Press and Samantha Appleton, a freelancer with the Noor agency.

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  • I received an interesting email yesterday from a business traveler who wanted to remain anonymous regarding a recent run in that he had with Air France Airlines and taking photographs aboard one of their flights.

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    Washington Post photographer Andrea Bruce has been named 2009 Photographer of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association. It’s the fourth time Bruce has won the award.

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    Jérôme Brunet’s photo essay Riding Shotgun with Texas Sheriff’s is a ferocious document of police activity and procedure in America’s ‘love-to-hate’ lone star state. I am in deep admiration of this project for it connects the dots and marries everything in a police officer’s routine from violent confrontation to mundane paperwork.

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  • A new study suggests that thinking quickly can boost your mood. It’s not clear precisely why this is the case, but it seems that people believe that fast thinking is a sign of a good mood.

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  • Check out John Harrington’s video interviews with photographers who covered President Obama’s address to Congress last night

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  • A few years ago, while hanging out at my future wife’s apartment, I opened a cupboard in her cramped bathroom. To be sure, this is not a habit of mine, and I can’t recall my exact motivation. What I found hanging in this cupboard above the toilet, however, made me uneasy: a small ax.
     
    “Uh, I don’t mean to sound paranoid or anything, but do you think you could get rid of that ax in the bathroom?” I asked her after exiting.
     
    I had been covering crime for the MT for about a year at that point, and it seemed every second murder played out the same way: friends or lovers drink, friends or lovers argue, one of friends or lovers grabs ax and hacks other friend or lover to death. Postmortem dismemberment by the killer was an occasional twist in these cases.

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  • Tools that let you edit photos in the Web browser have come a long way in the last few years. We wanted to take a moment to do a feature comparison with a grouping of editors–big and small, to see what each one is capable of

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  • Today I got another confirmation form a source that has never been wrong before: the Nikon D5000 is real

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    It’s been pretty quiet, so far, in terms of new digital SLR releases for PMA 2009, but Olympus stirred things up a bit this morning with the release of its new E-620. This camera is really more for students and aspiring pros than pros though.

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    The Eyes of History 2009 winners gallery

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    A good friend of mine and Blackspot band mate Scott Lytle helped design a really cool skate shoe for Adidas and Rev. It’s one thing to be on the outside of a scene to try to capture it’s coolness in a shoe, but to actually be involved in hardcore and be friends with Rev and the bands involved gives the shoe and the company’s designers much more credibility. The 3 guys involved even give short stories about themselves related to HC

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  • Adobe has released an update for Photoshop CS4

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    Shot with my 5D as a mental note to return someday with my Hasselblad.

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  • Last fall, Annie Leibovitz, the photographer, borrowed $5 million from a company called Art Capital Group. In December, she borrowed $10.5 million more from the same firm. As collateral, among other items, she used town houses she owns in Greenwich Village, a country house, and something else: the rights to all of her photographs.

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    I am now working with a translator which helps me understand the specifics of a project more clearly and enables me to find the more personal side to my subjects.

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    Christopher LaMarca has been photographing these activists and loggers since the summer of 2003

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    Dana Popa photographed a shelter there for women who had been freed from their ‘handlers’ and returned to their country.

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