It was two weeks after two jetliners had plowed into the towers of the World Trade Center. His good friend, photojournalist Bill Biggart’s body had been recovered from the rubble. His personal effects, including his cameras had been released by authorities to his widow, Wendy.
Some of his images are amazing and all the more real to me today as I spent a few days in New York last August.. He was really very close to the buildings.
(Via Ryan)
Monthly Archives: May 2004
SAP – Seymour Hersh
I heard this discussed on the radio on the way to work this morning and promptly forgot about it. Must read it at home tonight!
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. Rumsfeld’s decision embittered the American intelligence community, damaged the effectiveness of élite combat units, and hurt America’s prospects in the war on terror.
Experiences of Using PHP in Large Websites
Disclaimer – I haven’t read this yet, I’m heading out the door and home to make myself some dinner! I see that this paper is from 2002 but when the author recommended using Perl I had to link this and read it later! Cracked me up. hehe.
… few languages are as bad as PHP for doing serious development work. The author and his colleagues have had good results with Perl, and believe that languages such as C++, Java, and Python should serve equally well.
Fedora Core 2 – May 18th Release?
Today is the day when Fedora Core 2 is released. The Irish mirrors I’ve tried have the “2” directory but they’re off-limits right now. Thankfully the official
Bittorrent for Fedora is alive and I’m getting reasonable download speeds!
Anyone got reviews of the release?
Later… Yay! mirrors are up and running!
Brand Conscious Camera Owner?
For those of you who think brand is more important than function, this Ferrari branded camera is just what you’ve been looking for!
In “stylish” Ferrari red with the same logo plastered all over it you can’t help but be noticed by fellow tourists and passers-by as you raise your camera to snap a few photos.. oooh! ahhh!
B2++ 0.8.1 out!
Although it’s a minor update, the latest release of b2++ should be installed by everyone running b2++. I have provided a very simple upgrade package as well with only the changed files so you’ve no excuse not to upgrade!
Check the download page for links!
Changes:
- Referer display of Google and Yahoo queries nicer.
- Cosmetic changes to backend pages.
- Added Photoblog plugin.
Soldiers escape injury in sarin attack
BreakingNews.ie: Soldiers escape injury in sarin attack – Oooh.. nasty surprise for the soldiers involved. Includes background info on Sarin:
colourless and odourless gas… 500 times as toxic as cyanide…
An estimated 5,000 civilians were killed and 10,000 injured when the Iraqi air force bombarded Halabja with mustard and other poison gases, including sarin.
More hoaxes that fooled the worldly wise British media
So, the editor of the Daily Mirror has stepped down because of the fake photos of British troops torturing Iraqis. Let’s not forget the many other hoaxes the British media fell for!
Why you should never put your picture on the Internet …
Several good reasons why not here! 🙂
Photography Links and stuff
The May issue of the Digital Journalist is now available. Unfortunately they don’t have a direct link to that issue but delve into the archives for past articles.
Digital to Analog – an essay exploring the transititon from film to digital. The author laments the attitude novice photographers have these days – it’s digital, it’s somehow “better” than film, but we’re “picture builders”, not “takers”.
I agree with him to a certain extent, but the freedom afforded to me by the digital medium and a half-decent camera has helped me get much better in my art.
I understand completely how choosing a simple camera, without automatic controls of any sort, will force a photographer to learn “how” to take photographs properly. When I want to experience that I simply set my camera to Manual mode and I get a lot more control over the camera. That doesn’t help my technique or eye of course. That comes with time and practice and I think I’ll never stop developing that!
If you consider a picture as a frozen moment in time… Can you alter that moment? Yes and no. Yes, you can tweak the image in a darkroom or in Photoshop… But more importantly: you can never capture THAT moment again.