My job is better than yours….most days.

I spent most of the last month stuck in the office on the assignment desk.   While I do value working on the assignment desk, getting back out on the street and shooting pictures…

As a news photographer I’ve had the opportunity to  fly in some pretty cool aircraft over the years.  I’ve taken the controls of a WWII T-6 Texan fighter trainer, and held on for dear life…

Today Kodak announced it will cease production of Kodachrome.  If you’re sitting at your desk right now reading this please stand and observe a moment of silence to honor the passing of this legend.

If video killed the radio star, then…

This is an informal poll but I’m interested in what people want out of our website STLtoday.com.  I can’t promise a vote one way or another will influence anything but I’m curious to see what people prefer.

The Canon 5D Mark II was already an impressive camera.  The still pictures it makes rival medium format film images.  The noise or lack of noise in the image at higher ISOs like 3200 and 6400 is impressive.  And on…

If you’ve followed this blog for any period of time you might have noticed there is a flood of postings at the end of every month.  That’s because we’re required to do two blogs a month.  It seems reasonable, but…

I stumbled across these cool videos on You Tube from inside the Canon factory that makes lenses.  It’s really geeky, but I found the videos to be kind of interesting.  There are three videos I posted them all here.  The…

J.B. Forbes forwarded this email to the staff from Pictures blog reader William Rein.  Here is the text of Rein’s request.

“I was wondering if you or any other photographers posting on this blog would consider putting technical information on the…

I’ve got to admit that I thought that my co-worker, David Carson, was talking smack when he said he could play soccer. That was part of the reason that I made my way over to the indoor facility to watch…