Often on our photo assignments for the newspaper, someone will ask the question: “So, which TV station are you from?”

I’ll usually show them my 35MM Canon SLR still digital cameras and answer with a correction that I’m a newspaper photographer…

Microsoft, that little software company in Seattle that everybody either loves to love or loves to hate, recently unveiled for public use some mind-blowing photo software called Photosynth. For those of us who tell stories with photos Photosynth offers a…

A DiveCam operator (right) releases the camera. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Now that the Beijing Olympics are over, I’m left wondering what to watch on TV every night. What will I do without swimming or diving? Not that I’m a big fan…

…it’s the “Olympics” for photographers if you will—part of “our” games—where you bring the world’s best photographers into one place and have a competition to see who can come back with the best images…. but a photographer must always keep…

From Chase Jarvis comes the insanely educational (and possibly insane) Adobe Photoshop sage Deke McClelland, who released a video (call it a rap) of 101 Photoshop tips in 5 minutes. Quick, how many can you remember?

Got that? No? Don’t worry, neither did…

Any photographer will tell you that fashion shoots are an art in themselves. You have to have the right light, the right setting, the right idea, and most importantly, the right models. The best models require very little direction, they’re…

The Pictures blog now has it’s own page on Facebook. We currently have 31 fans listed on the site but we’re a little lonely. Will you be our be friend? Click here to sign up as a fan of the Pictures blog.…

One-year-old Victor Fite doesn’t know how lucky he is. Maybe someday his father, Adam Fite, will tell him the story of how a sniper’s bullet came within a couple inches of leaving little Victor without a father. Going to the…

Prior to my last semester of college at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale I sat down with my adviser and the long list of elective classes, one of which I had to choose to fill out my required hours. After perusing…

I don’t usually like blog entries that just point to another blog, but here’s a worthwhile read. I have recently had people ask me about breaking into the photojournalism business but so much has changed I have trouble just beginning…