As photographers, artists or whatever creative type you may be one of the big challenges is the mystic world of the copyright. Knowing when what we produce is protected or when you snap a shot what in the image is protected work that you may need permissions to even photograph. What about someone copying what you did in a shot, is that protected, do you have a legal leg to stand on? Make the jump and I’ll point out a few resources and thoughts that might help you figure some of this out.
There are not many events that get bigger than the Olympics. What would it be like to be a photographer there, the long hours and meeting deadlines. Kate and I have been following her friend Nhat Meyer who has been blogging about his experience shooting at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. Make the jump for the link to his blog and a few more words on this great photog.
It is the same reaction I receive when I tell people that mountain biking is big in Indiana. They are like what, no way, but yes it is and growing stronger every year. Skiing and snowboarding is also a popular activity with a few good spots within the state to rip up the powder. One of those great spots is Perfect North Slopes in southeastern Indiana. For a 3rd year Perfect North held their Big Air Competition where amateurs and pros competed peforming various turns flips and all kinds of dope tricks off of the jumps. So I packed up my gear and jumped in the car for the hour and half drive down south to hopefully catch some epic big air and stunts. Make the jump and I’ll share with you the images and story of this excellent event.
I have noticed what seems to be a trend of photographers moving away from static web sites to blogs that not only are full of text but of their photography. Why is this, are there advantages to photo blogging over having both a static web site and a blog. Make the jump and I’ll lay out a few thoughts on the subject.
During the last few days I have been thinking of this past year as many of us do at this time. Pondering the many things I have done with my photography and surprisingly as I think about it I have done a lot. Kate asked me what I thought my favorite or most important projects where, or maybe more to the point what did I enjoyed the most. Take the jump and I will tell you what I think of this past year and how it has helped me to really begin to define who I am as a photographer.
Back in November Nikon announced a contest titled Nikon Festival. The challenge was to create a short film that would fit into 140 seconds, inspired by the total number of characters one can use in a Twitter Tweet. Inspired I took up the challenge and decided to go the extra mile to create my short film. Here is the result of efforts and more details after the jump.
In a world that is filled with countless books on how to be this-or-that type of photographer it is not often that a really great book comes along that transcends those how-to books. Visionmonger is that book, it has been gaining rave reviews and one I decided to order for myself.
Up at O’dark thirty as we used to say in the Army but it wasn’t to go wait in some long line outside the local department store in the cold. No we were up early to make the two hour drive to Story Indiana for the first ever Gravel Grovel. A bike race that would cover some 60 miles, across hard-top and gravel roads with some single track, oh, and did I mention the monster hills! This was not the race for the faint of heart as some would soon discover.
I was reading one of my favorite online blogs and ran across an older entry that talked about this cool New York Times project.
I was struck by how they are capturing the stories of everyday people using both still images and interviews. It really highlights that everyone truly does have a story and that we all walk around with interesting people going right by us and as if we were all Zombies, we just wonder around oblivious. This is really getting the wheels turning in my head for a possible project.
5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. What do you get when you cross a recently picked corn field and those young at heart who love launching rockets? A fun two day event with young and old looking toward the sky as rockets race from launching pads.
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