Parents of newly arrived freshmen students sleep in a gym at the Central China Normal University in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province Wednesday Sept. 3, 2008. The university opened its gym overnight to allow parents of freshmen students to…

I’ve been meaning to get this up on PICTURES sooner, but have you seen Photoshelter’s blog, Shoot! The Blog? They do quite a nice job writing up some good content, and one of the latest posts is no exception. Check…

I was assigned to go to the Arch one day about two weeks ago to find someone to illustrate a story about handicapped accessibility at the National Park. I thought to myself - “this will be like trying to find…

PC World wrote a piece this week about Sony’s planned introduction of the Alpha 900 (which Rob Galbraith JUST posted) 24×36 full-frame camera with a 24.6 megapixel chip. That would put the camera’s megapixel count over Canon’s full-frame 1Ds Mark III and Nikon’s…

DigLloyd made a really good point (er, post) the other day. He said that Murphy’s Law “says that as soon as you travel more than 100 miles from a camera store, your camera’s chance of failure quintuples!” Okay, trade out the camera…

Sitting in a New Orleans Denny’s restaurant with my family some thirty years ago, I eyed my first presidential motorcade. It was Jimmy Carter heading back to the airport on Interstate 10 from some long forgotten visit. For some reason,…

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…

Nikon announced the release of their much-rumored D90, a prosumer camera that wedges nicely under the D300 and in-line as the replacement to the current D80. The biggest feature yet: the ability to record HD video and audio in the camera using a…

Arriving in Springfield at 7:15 a.m., the morning Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was scheduled to introduce his long-awaited vice presidential pick, Joe Biden of Delaware. I was not there early enough to get a first-come, first-served spot on the…

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…