Journal | A genius, so to speak, for sauntering

Knowing when and how to use stock photography is a talent in its own right. So is knowing when not to.

Travel photography tends to be about capturing the differences you find, either in the landscape or culture or food, between what you live with and what you find when go somewhere else. This makes a travel piece about your home town a challenge…

Why would a major news organization with its many resources choose the stock photo rather than finding a photo, any photo, of the actual conditions? The answer is simple:

As new social media outlets sprout like weeds I have found myself developing a new rule when dealing with them: I'm not uploading my images to your servers. Sure, I may post an iPhone shot or something similar…

For the New York Times, Friday November 20, 2009

The story has everything it needs for mass appeal: puppies, death, sex, and the first amendment. Naturally it has enjoyed a lot of attention from the press.

Julius Shulman, who died in earlier his year, is perhaps the premier architectural photographer of the 20th century. He is one of those artists whose work is so strong that it has supplanted our collective memory…

Looking at this image it occurred to me that it might be considerably more difficult to shoot today. Although the laws haven't changed significantly regarding photography in public places, the public has been asked to vigilantly report suspicious behavior

I have just finished shooting the first week of a five week assignment in Texas for the Department of Agriculture's National Resource Conservation Service. I'll be editing photos and preparing to spend the next four weeks in Texas shooting almost ...

Industrial Photographer Stephen Mallon seems to be getting the runaround from AIG and US Airways, who for some reason want to hide his outstanding photos of the recovery of flight 1549 in the sofa cushions. Lots of details at [the ...

I was discussing Facebook with a friend in the marketing business who had never signed on to the service. "You're in marketing" I said, "you might want to understand how the dynamics of the social media work. Facebook, or something ...

The French painter Claude-Joseph Vernet died on December 3, 1789 exactly one month and one day before the the second congress of the United States passed the first federal copyright act. The original act granted authors 14 years (extendable to ...

Today I am looking at the reporting of an environmental story starting with three headlines published within one day of each other. They are all reporting the same event—the release of a report by the Office of the Inspector General ...