Think Tank Announces the Retrospective
Think Tank Photo has announced several new product lately. One of which rates a 12 on scale of 1-to-10 for it’s cool factor. I am speaking about the new Retrospective series camera bags. As the name implies, it sports a very retro look and feel. I have only seen the press release photo, but from [...]
Composition: Prescriptive or Descriptive?
If there is one question I get whenever I teach or discuss composition it is, “Yeah but do you shoot with all these compositional rules in mind or is it something you see afterwards?” To put it another way, are these compositional rules prescriptive or descriptive? And the answer, of course, is a little of [...]
A Whiff of Progress and Pad Thai
MB: I want to introduce to you a young lady who will be guest blogging here every so often; Shiloh Lane. I started reading her blog and realized this young lady had a talent and passion for words. I think you will become a fan of hers as I have. A Whiff of Progress and [...]
Esther Havens: A Report from Haiti
I met Esther Havens over twitter. I heard a lot of scuttlebutt about how she was this young attractive hotshot photographer out of Austin, Texas.
Depth of Field: Ami Vitale, David duChemin and Matt Brandon
This is perhaps one of my favorite Depth of Fields. It is less an interview (not that any of my Depth of Fields can be called interviews) and more of a discussion. The listener gets a fly on the wall perspective with Ami, David and I recounting what it is like on the road. An [...]
Line of Sight
So much visual weight is given to the human face that it trumps just about everything else in an image.
Jessica Courtney
Yesterday I received a lot of positive response on Hebers Vega’s multimedia essay. Today I want to highlight one more student, Jessica Courtney with the Preemptive Love Coalition. Jessica, along with her husband Jeremy and other staff work hard to bring life saving surgery to Iraqi children. The story is an amazing one and worth [...]
Heber Vega
Note: There seems to be a bug with the Soundslides Plus player. The first few captions are bleeding past the edge of the screen. If viewed full screen this problem goes away. To review; I have seen that many NGOs (Non-Government Organizations aka not-for-profit organizations), especially the smaller ones, have less financial resources to be [...]
Saved by a $19.95
Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as a universal press pass. No one pass exists that will to get you into every event your heart, or editor, desires, but there certainly are press credentials. These are often given by individual newspapers or societies. A credential or an ID does not give you [...]
Halabja
I have made it back home. Back to my wife and my child and my bed. I am going to take a few days to try to reconnect and get my health better. I had rough case of bronchitis the whole time I was gone. Physically this was one of the hardest I have ever [...]
Update: Kirkuk
The Old Ottoman city of Kirkuk. Quick update. Yesterday I drove with Millennium Relief and Development Services (MRDS) to Kirkuk here in Iraq. I had not talked about it by name before for security reasons. The city is still tense and has US Army security forces though out the city. On my way out of [...]
I shoot for mostly NGOs and nonprofits. I photograph images of the unknown, the forgotten and the helpless. These are often the stories that most people overlook. 
