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futurejournalismproject: Final Embrace Every time I look back...

Thu, 09 May 2013 02:01:50 -0400

Final Embrace

Every time I look back to this photo, I feel uncomfortable — it haunts me. It’s as if they are saying to me, we are not a number — not only cheap labor and cheap lives. We are human beings like you. Our life is precious like yours, and our dreams are precious too. — Taslima Akhter.

Image: Two victims of a garment factory building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh by Taslima Akhter via Time Lightbox. Select to embiggen.

UPDATE: Via the New York Times, Clothing Is New Front in Movement for Fair Trade.

With fair-trade coffee and organic fruit now standard on grocery shelves, consumers concerned with working conditions, environmental issues and outsourcing are now demanding similar accountability for their T-shirts. And some retailers are doing what was once unthinkable, handing over information about exactly how, and where, their products were made.

The death toll from the Bangladesh factory collapse is now over 800.

Sometimes the best photos are the ones where you don’t even notice things like composition or technique, where the photography does not interfere with the picture.

Camarillo Brush Fire (by Sergio Antonio Martinez)

Fri, 03 May 2013 02:14:12 -0400

Camarillo Brush Fire (by Sergio Antonio Martinez)

Emerging Photographer Fund 2013 : APPLY NOW! | burn magazine

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:59:34 -0400

Emerging Photographer Fund 2013 : APPLY NOW! | burn magazine:

First photo contest that I have applied to! I don’t think I’ve ever been more self critical of my work, and I almost decided not to do it. But you don’t get any credit for not trying, so I said what the heck and ponied up the $25 submission fee. My photo essay was about my deployment last year. Wish me luck!

Encinitas Torpedo People

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:58:45 -0400

Encinitas Torpedo People

sharpshooterphoto: (via 500px / Photo “Warm Light” by Sergio...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:35:23 -0400

sharpshooterphoto:

(via 500px / Photo “Warm Light” by Sergio Martinez)

Sick in bed, taking it easy today. Oo, Social D!

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:16:36 -0400

Sick in bed, taking it easy today.

Oo, Social D!

(via 500px / Sergio Martinez / My 75: #1)

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:01:25 -0400

(via 500px / Sergio Martinez / My 75: #1)

Photo

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:02:00 -0400

My review of the Timbuk2 Small Snoop Insert (via A Camera Bag...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:16:57 -0400

My review of the Timbuk2 Small Snoop Insert

(via A Camera Bag That Fits | Read. Write. Think.)

Upper Yosemite Falls

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:59:27 -0400

Upper Yosemite Falls

Goes shopping for a Nikon D600. Ends up with a Canon 5D Mark...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:21:21 -0400

Goes shopping for a Nikon D600.

Ends up with a Canon 5D Mark III.

La Jolla Cove

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 03:02:23 -0400

La Jolla Cove

Yikes! Finally pulled the trigger on an FX camera! We narrowed...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:37:38 -0400

Yikes! Finally pulled the trigger on an FX camera! We narrowed it down to this or the Canon 5D Mark III, but because we already have a D7000 that we will continue to use as a backup we went with the Nikon.

I only hope that the issues of “sensor debris” are greatly exaggerated. Maybe a second pass through Nikon’s QA will help. Still, bought a DIY sensor cleaning kit just in case.

(via Used Nikon D600 Digital Camera (Body Only) 25488B B&H Photo)

christinebrailsford: Saturday , April 6th (at HANDPLANE...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:52:46 -0400

christinebrailsford:

Saturday , April 6th (at HANDPLANE HOEDOWN)

6 National Parks, Tahoe, Salt Lake City and back in one day....

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:14:18 -0400

6 National Parks, Tahoe, Salt Lake City and back in one day. Best road trip ever.

Joshua Tree

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:08:37 -0400

Joshua Tree

Bryce Canyon

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:06:51 -0400

Bryce Canyon

Grand Canyon

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:05:31 -0400

Grand Canyon

Salt Lake City

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:03:47 -0400

Salt Lake City

Lake Tahoe

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:03:00 -0400

Lake Tahoe