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04.29.2009 1:36 pm

The first 100 days in photos

President Barack Obama marked his first 100 days in office today. While the media is busy scrutinizing whether or not they were successful and if he lived up to all his campaign promises take a few minutes and  to watch…

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02.28.2009 3:41 pm

Copyright fight over Obama Hope painting/photo

NPR’s Fresh Air had a couple of good interviews with Shepard Fairey, the artist famous for the Obama Hope painting, and Mannie Garcia, the photographer who shot the original image which Fairey’s painting is based on.  There is also a…
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01.27.2009 5:47 pm

A 1,474 megapixel inauguration photo

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

You’ve seen a gazillion pictures from the inauguration, but here is one more I want to throw in the mix by New York-based Photographer David Bergman. The technology behind this is amazing.

This zoomable 1,474 megapixel panoramic photograph allows you to…

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01.26.2009 11:06 am

Inauguration day timeline

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

4:55 a.m. - The bus leaves a Baltimore airport hotel. I’m on board with a group of Ritenour High School students. They’ve worked hard to get here today. All of them are part of an organization called Partners in Achievement.…

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01.25.2009 11:40 pm

Robot Aided Inauguration Scene

Photographer David Bergman, a freelancer based in NYC, shot this 1,474 megapixel panoramic scene of President Barack Obama’s Inauguration. It is equal parts cool and creepy that this can be done.  You gotta see it for yourself and then use…

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01.21.2009 5:00 pm

On the way home to St. Louis from the inauguration…or so we’re trying

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
City hall reporter Jake Wagman and photojournalist Elie Gardner track down other flight options at Dulles.

City hall reporter Jake Wagman and photojournalist Elie Gardner track down other flight options at Dulles.

Six of us, four Post-Dispatch reporters and two PD photojournalists are spinning our wheels at Dulles airport in Washington, D.C., somewhat weary from three days…

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01.20.2009 9:34 pm

Inauguration previsualization

That is the essence of previsualization, as coined by Ansel Adams. Chuck Kennedy of the McClatchy-Tribune Photo Service had the idea to proposition the powers that be to set up a remote camera at the base of the podium where…

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01.19.2009 7:51 am

St. Louisans inauguration bound, arrive in Virginia

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

After 21 hour driving and three extra unexpected hours waiting on buses for their hotel rooms, 123 St. Louisans rolled into Harrisonburg, Virginia late last night.

For those of you that are photography fans, but not necessarily political junkies that require…

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01.18.2009 9:44 pm

Inauguration hustling

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As I walked to the National Mall this morning I was stunned with the number of vendors selling Obama merchandise. Not just t-shirts, hats and scarves, but long johns, action figures and Obama chocolate too,…

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12.18.2008 12:42 am

Old School

TIME magazine recently named President-elect Barack Obama their 2008 Person of the Year.  One of their stories focuses upon a series of pictures taken of him by photographer Lisa Jack when he was a student at Occidental College in Los…

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