Break from the regional talent search to remind photographers that listening to other photographers talk can be a good thing. Last week, Jim Dow gave a wonderful presentation at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston for the American Society of Picture Professionals. He reminded us all the importance of being grounded in a [...]

Don’t have the stamina of David Burnett to lug around digitals, speed graphics and half the B&H inventory? Cheat. Yes, cheat reality. Upload 35mm images to TiltShiftMaker and magically download the medium format look. Best images to manipulate are sweeping expanses with one or two main characters in center of frame. I have nothing of [...]

In honor of my ski lodge weekend (no skiing but plenty of relaxing and one afternoon of snowshoeing), Vermont is the Region 1 state in the spotlight. Second week of relishing in local photographers. Non-scientific method of selecting the photog for the day? Roaming the ‘Find A Photographer’ feature on nppa.org. One thing I learned [...]

One of my specialties as a photo editor is the inter/national assignment. On the blog, I tend to talk about photographers on a global scale more than from a local, region 1 perspective. So last week, I challenged myself to a local talent search. First state: Massachusetts. Source: the NPPA ‘Find a Photographer’ service. I [...]

Each month, Wired magazine publishes Jargon Watch – a collection of new ‘it’ words. Take December 2008, one of the nouns to make the list: “Frolleague n. A work colleague friended on a social networking site and thus granted access to personal information, from blog entries to stag party pics, that may be perceived as [...]

NPPA Region One is proud to announce it is co-sponsoring the photojournalism track at the New England Press Association convention in February. The event will be held at the Boston Park Plaza on February 6 & 7 2009. NEPA is the largest press association in New England and serves 525 member newspapers across the region. [...]

AP phenom photog Stephan Savoia told me long ago that the value of contests isn’t the winning but the opportunity to personally review and rate your work from the past year. So sit down with your favorite external backup device and start sifting through folders. Like what you see? What do you want to do [...]