Support Embedded Metadata/Contact Information Manifesto
I was recently made aware of a great new website called Pro-Imaging. It has a lot of good information on all things for professionals as well as advanced amateurs and even the up-and-coming photo enthusiasts. It’s never too early to learn about the need to retain the rights to your… Read More »
Update on Thompson/Reuters Stripping Metadata
Greetings Everyone, I’ve been off the grid for a few weeks and recently contacted my editor at Reuters requesting more info on how and why metadata is stripped from an image. Here is her response. Hard to believe but true. I’m hopeful we can push this issue. Anyone with any… Read More »
Fred Kurtz Shows The Beauty of Blurb Books
One of our favorite people, Fred Kurtz, who has traveled the world with us, recently sent me a link to a book he’s published on trains. Fred and his wife Kathy are two of the nicest people you’ll ever meet and Fred loves photography. He’s fairly new to the game… Read More »
Shooting Nikon’s New D600 in Brazil
Tanya and I just finished our first two week shoot in the wilds of the Pantanal of Brazil. I was shooting the D4 and the new D800 on this first trip. I’m still processing the images so I don’t have anything to share, but it was so exhilarating to be… Read More »
Record Arctic Ice Melt – Support the Arctic Documentary Project.
A recent article discusses the record ice melt seen in the arctic this summer. Thankfully the scientists think the melting is finished for this year since fall is approaching and in past years melting begins to reverse about this time, however, this is just another sign of things to come.… Read More »
Major Publication Wants Free Photos Yet Charges $155,000.00 For One Ad
I just received an email from a good friend, who has requested to remain anonymous. He’s an enthusiastic photographer with a day job as an attorney and his email highlighted a situation he recently ran into with Travel and Leisure magazine. We’ll call my friend and fellow photographer Igor, only… Read More »
Reuters Strips All Metadata From Your Photos
Has anyone else noticed that all metadata is removed from images when sent out via Thompson/Reuters wire service? Take a look for yourself by following the link to a recent story they published of mine. Click on one of the four images and drag it to your desktop, then open… Read More »
Arctic Documentary Project’s Tundra Fires Syndicated Through Reuters
Reuters news agency recently published the story on the tundra fires that have been burning parts of the subarctic. I was in Churchill last month and the photos we sent out caught their attention. PBI’s senior scientist Dr. Steven Amstrup was interviewed by the news agency and discussed the issues… Read More »
This Country Has Too Damn Many Regulations? You Decide.
It’s about 4:00am and I’m working with my pictures putting together projects for Nikon and Photo District News. My computer is set up for Pandora and streaming radio. One of my favorite news programs is NPR, and I heard a story this morning I just had to share. When some… Read More »
Apple’s Keynote and Pages – Getting Images Out of These Documents
I’m a huge fan of Apple’s Keynote and Pages programs. Keynote is the Apple equivalent to PowerPoint and Pages is the Apple version of Word. Both are extremely powerful and allow you to actually convert all respective documents to/from either of Microsoft’s versions of the similar program, and it does… Read More »