Pulitzer Prizes

Announced today ...

For Spot Braking Photography, Reuters' Adrees Latif for his photo of wounded Japanese photographer Kenji Nagai in Myanmar.

For Feature Photography, Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor for photos of a family coping with a parent's terminal illness.

Brave New World

This will only be filed under my "Rants and Rambles" category, because that's all it is.

A student of mine, while working on a project for his history class, took some photos of a chicken processing plant. He stood on the side of the road, took photos of what was plainly visible ... and was then questioned by not just a local sheriff's deputy but by the FBI, as well.

Timing is everything - in his class this week, we're talking about ethics, copyright and the law.

Business Photos

The Reuters blog posted a nice collection of economic and business related photos. There are lots of shooters who hate getting a business assignment, I used to like them. Something different.

Of course, 75% of what I shot was sports which, believe it or not, gets tiring after a while.

Joe McNally on Junk Piles and Herschel Walker

Over on Joe McNally's blog, he talks about a workshop he was teaching and, at the tail end of it, is a little bit about shooting covers for national magazines, this one on UGA's own Herschel Walker.

Probably of more interest locally than non-locally ...

Thinking of Journalism Grad School?

Then you must read Mindy McAdams's post on it first.

Some semi-random thoughts ...

Communication theory is really lost on those who haven't yet experienced a lot of communication ... be sure you love journalism before committing more time and money into learning about it ... most 30-year veteran copy editors knows more about journalism than anybody I've ever taken a class from ... real life is way cooler than academic life.

Guests

Billy Weeks, director of graphics and photography at the Chattanooga Times Free Press, joined the Multimedia Journalism class this week to talk about what they're doing and where this is all heading.

He got the "five things all graduating journalists should know" question and answered thusly:

1. Report — Journalism is all about connecting with subjects, the media doesn't matter. Young students are afraid to ask questions — don't be.
2. Be able to handle audio
3. Be able to handle still photos, especially strobes
4. Be able to handle video
5. Team Work — Share ideas, communicate with your co-workers

UGAzine Looking for Photo Stories

Passing along ...

Each semester, ugazine publishes a two-page, color Photo Essay for the
department "In A Thousand Words." All submissions will be reviewed by our
Photo Editor, Editor-In-Chief and Managing Editor. If your work is selected for
publication, then you'll be asked to submit a brief (2-3 sentence) summary
paragraph of the story to accompany the photos and captions.
To submit your work, please burn 8-10 high resolution (minimum 300 DPI) JPEG
images with the captions included in the photo information area to a CD or
DVD. Please write in Sharpie on the CD your name, e-mail address and cell
phone number. Also, print out a word document with all your contact
information and the photo numbers with their corresponding captions. Attach
the CD to the sheet of paper and place in the ugazine box in Sophie Barnes'
office (aside Kent Middleton's office) by the last day of spring classes.
If you have any questions, please e-mail ugazine@gmail.com.
Thanks for your submission.