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Useful Flickr Shortcuts

For Flickr users, here are some URLs that are useful that I’ve found in the FAQs and/or forums: Recent Comments on your photos, and Comments you’ve left on others’ photos. Your recent photos, by date taken: a List, the Calendar. Sponsor me with a gift Flickr Pro Account I especially like that last one.

Everyplace Photography?

Andrew Kantor, USA Today: New digital camera? Know how, where you can use it With all these cameras snapping around us, I started to wonder about the laws regarding using them. Where can you shoot? What can you shoot? Mr. Kantor’s a writer, not a lawyer, though his research seems to be pretty much in […]

Everyday Photography

I’ve tried to get more in the habit of carrying my camera around more, shooting on a more regular basis rather than just taking it to specific events. This Christmas vacation was a good time for that, just keeping my eyes open and taking pictures of whatever I saw. Here’s a view out the passenger […]

Professional Photography Advice

This past Friday and Saturday I had an exciting opportunity and took it, attending the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. There were workshops and viewing sessions, portfolio reviews and an expo area, and of course many photographers to meet. To the board of directors of The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and the staff (all volunteers, I believe) who […]

Football-less Friday

It feels really strange, now that High School football season is over; it’s Friday and I don’t have a game to shoot. I got a fair number of pictures in the local weekly newspaper this season, and last week I got an assignment to cover the Georgia AAAAA Volleyball Championship match. Milton’s girls fought hard, […]

First Sale

Last Friday I wrote “Today also marks my first day as a ‘real’ freelance photographer.” Page 24 of today’s Alpharetta Revue and News is the first evidence of that. click on the image for a larger version The image they printed is a crop of this shot. There’s no photo credit in the version of […]

What Is Truth’s Image?

Last spring I was thinking a bit about “photo integrity” (whatever that may be). Now, as I ponder the idea of turning hobby into secondary income as photographer, I come across this in the New York Times’s No Picture Tells the Truth. The Best Do Better Than That. But the untruth – or, at least, […]

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