Hurray Scott Kingsley for stating the fact and making my Monday a little brighter. A girl can get a complex after six months in job search mode doesn’t bring in any offers. File under misery loves company. I like when media colleagues express my reality – no jobs people, no jobs. Validation. Corroboration. Substantiation. Kingsley [...]

Klavs Bo Christensen knows firsthand. He was booted out of Denmark’s Picture of the Year contest because of his post-production saturation and color treatments. In final rounds, judges requested to see raw files from three contestants, they disqualified Christensen’s entry. What makes the case more than retouching in the extreme is that Christensen positions the [...]

Getty Images knows the answer. And not in a useless philosophical dribble way. The agency provides contributors releases to download in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Poland, Russian, Spanish, English and Portuguese (European and Brazilian – a nod I’m sure to the photographic marketing power of Mrs. Tom Brady). Like the Rosetta Stone of releases. [...]

The NPPA registration gates are open for the 2009 Multimedia Immersion workshop from June 6-10 in shiny Las Vegas. Open to 50 photojournalists with a 2:1 student to trainer ratio. Let’s compare those numbers to my Vegas wedding. 14 people with a 7:1 guest to bride ratio. Teachers this year include Regina McCombs, Rob Rosenthal, [...]