Category Archives: general

… where my daily or thereabouts musings or items of immediate interest — something like a  visual working journal or diary or sketchbook — are recorded, with the latest additions appearing on the home page (here) in descending date order. … Continue reading →

A discussion from The Cut website …

Turns out that many “wildlife” photos are staged with trained animals and orchestrated settings, as described in this Quartz article.

In this Petapixel piece, the role of photography and its rise is illustrated in a video comparing front pages of the New York Times from 1852 until the present.  Read the backgrounder here and see the video below: Every NYT … Continue reading →

See this rather disturbing story here.

My old photo sidekick, Bill, sends this piece along.  Compared are relative burst speeds, their sounds, and other unusual information for Canon’s 1D X Mark II and Nikon’s D5 and D500.

Photojournalism, before my interests gravitated to something more like the realm of fine art pursuit, was my initial objective when I entered photography. And I soon learned that context was everything, when measuring the standards of truth and fairness projected … Continue reading →

(Note: A 30-second ad precedes this video, but you can skip it in a few seconds.)

Think twice; use your camera/smartphone responsibly. http://mashable.com/2015/09/21/selfie-deaths/#OLEUIfy6akq3

Some pretty incredible photos, here in a New York Times piece, on the ESA (European Space Agency) Rosetta’s spacecraft deployment of a lander on Comet 67P/C-G this week.  Check out more photos at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/12/science/space/rosetta-philae-comet-landing.html.