Frank Chimero penned a good post on his blog a few days ago, in an open letter to the Internet. In it, he describes why he’d sometimes rather pay for content and programs than rely on the “free” nature of content. It is excerpted below, and the full text can be found on his blog. [...]
April 12, 2010
Outdoor bookends to a busy week
Busy. There really isn’t a more concise word to sum up the past three weeks. My weekdays are spent working, in the morning at Grow Food, Grow Hope and at night at the newspaper. Every day but Tuesday I start at 8 o’clock in the morning and finish, if I’m lucky, by 10 o’clock at [...]
March 27, 2010
The MoJo’s toolkit
In the fall of 2007, I was in Washington for the annual Society of Professional Journalists conference, an organization with student chapters at journalism schools across the country. I went alone, because no one else from my chapter could make the trip, but it was probably better that way. The seminars and workshops at the [...]
March 20, 2010
Goodale Grass
So far, I’ve gotten a lot of use out of my 35mm f1.8 prime lens. It does the job, and well. I love how the depth of field in this shot makes the blurred edges at the top and bottom of the frame seem cartoonish, while the grass in focus pops out at you. I’m [...]
March 20, 2010
An Aisle Seat
This is one of my favorites from a shoot inside the Murphy Theater a couple weeks ago. I’m still awed each time I walk into this place.
March 18, 2010
The Only Game in Town
An item posted today on a blog for Philadelphia Magazine tells the story of Dan Robrish, a former AP reporter in Philly who is now living a sort-of superhero life in rural Pennsylvania. He quit his beat after 12 years and moved to quaint Elizabethtown, PA, where the corporate-owned daily newspaper had gone belly-up a [...]
March 17, 2010
Rocky & Valentino
In honor of St. Patrick’s day today, I decided to post this picture of Valentino, a man we met outside the Guinness Brewery in Dublin. He was asking for spare change– but the change wasn’t for him; it was for his horse Rocky, who was badly in need of a change of shoes. We obliged [...]
March 16, 2010
On the ground
Why do the haphazard, off-kilter pictures always turn out the best? Frankie and I enjoying the sun today.
March 12, 2010
Signs of Spring
We have our first sign of Spring sitting in the window sill, looking out onto an alley and parking lot that don’t really seem suited for growing food. That’s one of the trade-offs of living downtown, I suppose; I gave up a yard for a prime location. We’ll have a garden still, just not here. [...]
March 11, 2010
Aaand we’re back.
I’ve learned a handful of extremely valuable lessons this past week. First, don’t trust someone solely because his/her name tag says “expert.” In fact, if their title includes any variation of the word, be immediately skeptical. Second, if at any point you think you can do what you’re about to pay to have done, do [...]
