Newspaper photographer who got Oswald image dies

From Chron.com
DALLAS — Bill Winfrey, a former newspaper photographer who captured one of the iconic images of Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, has died. He was 75. Winfrey died Jan. 15 at East Texas Medical Center in Athens from complications of heart disease and diabetes. A self-taught photographer, [...]

FIRST LOOK: New View Of The Inauguration

By Donald R. Winslow
© 2009 News Photographer magazine
WASHINGTON, DC (January 20, 2009) – In a new view of an American Presidential Inauguration that’s never been shot or seen before, photographer Chuck Kennedy from the McClatchy-Tribune Photo Service today made this image of President Barack Obama taking the oath of office as the 44th President of [...]

Mo. Man Shoots Out-of-Sight Photos

TURNERS, Mo. (AP) – Although legally blind, photographer Bob White does not let that stand in the way of his passion.
Using a 300-mm telephoto lens, he captures the beauty of rural life around him – plants, buildings, wildlife and people.
Full article here.

Frist exhibit gives face to homelessness

From Tennesee.com

By Nancy DeVille • THE TENNESSEAN • January 7, 2009

An upcoming exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will offer a look at the human side of homelessness.
“Seeing Ourselves: Photographs of Safe Haven” opens Friday, Jan. 9, and features 22 color and black-and-white photographs taken by members [...]

Firefighter, photographer brought together by tragic picture

Firefighter, photographer brought together by tragic picture

Ron Olshwanger’s 1988 prize-winning photograph.

By Elizabethe Holland
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
12/30/2008
Twenty years ago today, a lasting bond took root between two men on opposite ends of a camera lens.
Holding the camera was Ron Olshwanger, a fire district director who took pictures of fires in his free time. Holding a soot-covered toddler [...]

War photography: Truth is the first casualty

(From Times Online)
Waldemar Januszczak
Shakespeare hits the nail on the head on the subject of war when he has the jealous Othello bid his emotional farewell to “big wars that make ambition virtue!”. It is not ambition alone that gets turned into something else by war. Viewpoints become causes. Murderousness becomes strength of purpose. A [...]

Leonard Nimoy to appear in Alabama to discuss his erotic photography

Leonard Nimoy to appear in Alabama to discuss his erotic photography
In the words of Dave Barry, I am not making this up.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Actor and photographer Leonard Nimoy, right, will lecture on his photographic works at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, as the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Art and Art [...]

It’s been awhile

Since my last post I have been through the joys and sorrows of a major move from Seattle, WA to Eureka CA due to my wife changing jobs.  It was certainly an interesting experience, and years from now I will no doubt be able to laugh at the memory of Angel and Jesus the movers [...]

Barriers to creativity project

For the last couple of weeks I have been working on a personal project, entitled Barriers to Creativity. It came about from my reading of the book “Art is a Way of Knowing” by Pat. B. Allen. In an early chapter she discusses our inner critics, and suggests making the attempt to get [...]