Archive for February, 2009

PDN World In Focus 2009 Results

Friday, February 27th, 2009

The winning image was shot in January 2008 while covering the Kenyan post-election violence. Using a Nikon D2Xs and a Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8. After spending all day in the displaced camps getting average images with not ideal light, a storm started to move in late and the light started to get interesting. With the fading [...]

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Stopping the Press

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

By far the best idea to keep the newspaper tradition alive is from Jon Stewart. Suggesting that the black ink that rubs off on your fingers be a highly addictive narcotic that absorbs into the skin. 
As we get word this week that yet another metropolitan daily is on life support, The San Francisco Chronicle. As the endangered species [...]

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