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The Maine Event

AP staffer Bob Bukaty looked on the ice and over the water for two photos  in the MSNBC weather slide show today. His frame at dusk of an ice fisherman in his shack on a frozen lake has the perfect balance of cold and warm tones joined by matching exposures. The ...

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January 17, 2009

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Right Place, Right Time

There's not better place to have a spot news assignment than New York City, assuming there is a good place for spot news. Yesterday's plane crash into the Hudson River turned out great for passengers, crew, and staffers at The New York Times, Reuters, EPA, and  AP. Gary Hershorn of Reuters ...

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January 16, 2009

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Something To Carp About

Ice fishing on a local lake took a greater magnitude for Minneapolis-St. Paul  Star Tribune staffers Richard Sennott and Richard Tsong-Taatarii when University of Minnesota biologists used the cold weather to gather up more than 3,00 unwanted, bottom feeding carp. Sennot's linear slide show highlights the process and success of gathering ...

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January 15, 2009

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Beach Boy Bash

The Los Angeles Times was called to task for publishing photos of young street surfers riding the latest in skateboard design, Hamboards. The boards are longer, built to resemble surfboards giving the riders a different surface and experience more like surfboards than the smaller skateboards. Times staffer Allen J. Schaben is ...

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January 14, 2009

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Campus Chopper Crash

Dave McDermand, chief photographer at The Eagle in College Station, Texas, followed a Texas Army National Guard helicopter during training exercises today at Texas A&M and watched as it crashed. The crash happened as one of two choppers were taking off from the campus field during a day of training by ...

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January 13, 2009

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Stills Still Tell The Story

The Dallas Morning News pioneered video for newspapers. Staffer David Leeson became what is believed to be the first full-time newspaper staff photographer to dedicated all of his time to shooting video. His work demonstrated the possibility that video cameras might one day replace still cameras in every photojournalist's camera ...

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January 12, 2009

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Flooded With Good Photos

The staffs of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Times continue to compete to proved their readers with good photography  despite the possibility of the PI closing if not sold. This weeks flooding brought visual records of destruction, emotion, and beauty to the paper's readers. The PI's Mike Kane offered a frame of ...

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January 10, 2009

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NPR - Getting Too Close

National Public Radio photographer David Gilkey has been covering the Gaza conflict from Israel's border town. He has had his equipment destroyed — and has suffered from tear gas exposure — while capturing protests and gunfire. Gilkey spoke with Corey Flintoff via telephone Tuesday, after returning from a reporting trip ...

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January 9, 2009

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Spot News Participation

David Proeber, a photo editor at the Pantagraph in Bloomington, Illinois, became an unwitting participant in a police chase and shootout as he searched for a suspected robber on the interstate highway. Proeber stopped his car in the opposite lanes where police were chasing the suspect when as he approached Proeber's ...

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January 8, 2009

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Post’s Iraq Photo Correspondent

Yesterday's post pointed out the sensitivity of covering spot news, especially for small newspaper photographers. It certainly is no easier for Andrea Bruce covering Iraq for The Washington Post. Her most recent trip to Iraq where she earlier shot for the Post, gained her access to the rituals of female circumcision ...

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January 7, 2009

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