For the past year or more I've been moving in a different direction in my writing. Less concerned with writing about technology, society and photography, although I remain interested in all of it, I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

When we learn to see someone inside of us comes alive. Perhaps it is a heightened sense of awareness or consciousness. It is 4 a.m. and the streets are wet slick with drizzle. A neon sign blinks red... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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I tend to think through an anthropocentric lens. That is, my world view is largely based on my experiences as a "westerner." Almost all of my photo-idols, with the exception of photographers such as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

A long time ago I remember my father, a former police officer with 20 years of experience, telling me that it was easy to be a "ball-buster" when you had a night stick and a badge. What he was... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Forty years ago, pop icon Rod Stewart released his sit "Every Picture Tells" a story - something he continues to believe in. According to Larry Little at Talenthouse, "Rod is inviting aspiring... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

It's been nearly two month since the U.S. government announced the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Citing they had proof of the killing, evidence of these claims has yet to fully come to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Los Angeles Times has an interesting article on its journalism blog about a Reuters photo showing what looks like a manipulated image. The good news about the digital era is that readers are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Increasingly, social media such as Facebook, Tumblr, Blogger, Twitter, and Four Square affords marketers and artists innovative ways to create unique brands and build new audiences. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

One of the more interesting aspects of looking at pictures is in trying to find juxtapositing ideas and ideals in the interpretation. Sandwich board advertising has been around since the 19th... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Many photographers approach making images of different cultures much like a taxidermist might prepare a trophy catch. There is a long tradition in photography of conveyingf people in developing and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Richard Lam/Getty Images The juxatposition seems so surreal. Richard Lam's image of a couple, in the middle of a riot, kissing. The Vancouver Sun called the picture, "Love Among the Ruins", but in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Photo Credit: Lisa Johnson/YFrog When the Vancouver Canucks hockey club lost in the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Championship Wednesday disappointed fans took to the streets to vent their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Photo Credits: AP (left), Wheaties (right) Our cuture is obsessed with body image -- at least that's what marketers would have us think. Two recent representations of the male body stand out. On a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Shortly after President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen was taken to Saudi Arabia for treatment of wound suffered in an attack by militants last week, a image began to surface on the Internet. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Click image to enlarge (really) The Washington Post website ran a photo gallery about Rep. Anthony Weiner's alledged three-year spree of having sexually explicit communications with women in various... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

It's easy to poke fun of politicians and religion -- some news outlets excel at it. In the end, though, cheap shot journalism -- one that is not fair-minded, balanced, or honest -- represents the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

A transformation is taking place in how news is gathered, reported and delivered to the public -- a transformation that is best conveyed by looking at the emergence of a two-tiered system of news... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

It seems like people continue to write about the fact that film cameras are history. The AP ran a story this week about the sharp decline in film manufacturing at Kodak. Staff writer Ben Dobbin... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Tucked away in a corner of a "Five and Dime" for decades ubitiquous photo booth sat in a corner waiting for young sweet hearts to act silly or steal a kiss. The photo booth was an unmistakable and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Alan Sailer is pushing the envelop with a homemade flash. Working in relative obscurity and with about $300, Sailer invented a strobe that captures the crashing and crunching of some of the oddest... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

In an age of multi-tasking, we have become accustomed to making pictures with our camera phones, texting a friend, checking Facebook, sending a tweet, seeming all at the same time. Meanwhile, some... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Fuhrman notes, “I think I was numb when I arrived in Joplin. The reality for me was the damage. I had never been to Joplin before and had no idea what the area, where the tornado hit, should look... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

It's almost hard to imagine, but in less than a decade more than 60 billion pictures have been uploaded to Facebook. What is even more interesting, according to a recent study, that 10 percent of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The keys to a photo critique including trusting your intuition, being spontaneous, and having empathy for others and yourself. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

An aerial image is an abstraction. These types of images reduces objects into a montage of shapes, colors, forms, and lines. There is an almost grotesqueness about the images documenting the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

From my own experience as a teacher, I encourage students to dabble in all areas of creating news content. This would range from digital image editing, photojournalism, page layout, web design, video... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

One of the more Intriguing and fun photo contests this year is the Soundgarden 2011 World Tour photo competition where the winners get to photograph one of the 17 tour stops. Larry Little at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Pictures are historically contingent and function to construct a context in our collective consciousness -- one that is linked to culture, politics, history, economics, and religious values. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]