Ice wraps Hull in misery Saturday, Feb. 9, 1923, the day after a blizzard brought more than two feet of snow and coastal flooding to southeastern Massachusetts.
Residents walk along a stretch of Nantasket Avenue washed bare after the high tide receded in Hull, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, the day after the blizzard. The Boston skyline is visible in the background.
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is living proof that this country desperately needs to re-think its interpretation of the Second Amendment (which makes no mention of sports or hunting). Giffords was shot in the head Jan. 8, 2011, as she met with constituents outside a Tuscon mall. The gunman killed six people and wounded 13 others, including Giffords. This C-SPAN video shows Giffords, now partially blind with a paralyzed right arm, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 30, 2013. Her husband Mark Kelly sits next to her.
On a recent trip to Sanibel Island, Florida, I tried out my new iPhone 4S camera. Cropped, toned and added a border with the Photoshop Express App. Wow. Above, the beach near our hotel.
View from hotel balcony.
White pelicans at the Ding Darling national wildlife refuge.
As a still photographer, I’ve long appreciated my car as portable step ladder. I love this idea of turning it into a dolly as well. Thanks to the folks at Vimeo for posting another helpful tutorial on video production.
Drive-by Shooting: Using Your Car to Make Better Videos from Vimeo Video School on Vimeo.
In a post titled Criminalizing Photography New York Times Lens Blog co-editor James Estrin and Mickey H. Osterreicher, a lawyer for the National Press Photographers Association, discuss a troubling trend of arrests for photography in public spaces.
Said Osterreicher:
“Since 9/11, there’s been an incredible number of incidents where photographers are being interfered with and arrested for doing nothing other than taking pictures or recording video in public places.
It’s not just news photographers who should be concerned with this. I think every citizen should be concerned. Tourists taking pictures are being told by police, security guards and sometimes other citizens, “Sorry, you can’t take a picture here.” When asked why, they say, “Well, don’t you remember 9/11?”
I remember it quite well, but what does that have do to with taking a picture in public? It seems like the war on terrorism has somehow morphed into an assault on photography.
… I think it was very different 20 years ago. I think press photographers had more access, I think credentials were respected. Unfortunately, nowadays wearing a press credential is almost like wearing a scarlet ‘A’.”
Trying out a new take on audio slideshows. Reported and produced while teaching basic digital storytelling at Emerson College.
Never off the clock from kunhardt photo on Vimeo.
My video about unemployment in Massachusetts placed first in the National Press Photographers Association’s monthly multimedia-video contest of July 2012.
Can producers really make audio “references” or “citations” to the music they like without stealing? Sometimes ad agencies try by changing keys, altering melodies … and still, it sounds a lot like what they want but can’t have for free. Great story on National Public Radio’s “On the Media” discusses “soundalikes.”
Speaking of sound … what do you do when cheering spectators and ambient noise drown out the sounds of the sports action you want to record? Well-placed, close mics attached to athletes or their equipment can record sound – sound that we wouldn’t hear even if there were no ambient noise. Suddenly the sport sounds superb, rich, dramatic. But is this ‘real’? I believe it is. What is real? Down the rabbit hole we go. Informative discussion on the science and reality of sound in this blog post by audio journalist Tim Goodyear of the UK.
Katelyn Colantonio, 14, needs a kidney transplant. The teen goes for dialysis three times a week, three hours each time, while she waits for an organ. I photographed Katie with, from left, her sister Nicole, 19, who battled lymphoma last year, and her parents Janice and Jimmy Colantonio in their Braintree yard Friday, June 29, 2012. Katie and Nicole are using Facebook as one way to find an organ donor.
Jumping for seagulls, Wollaston Beach, Quincy, Massachusetts
Wollaston Beach, Quincy, Massachusetts
July Fourth parade, Hingham, Massachusetts
Wollaston Beach, Quincy, Massachusetts