Archive for Photojournalism
Iraq War Diary: The Battle of Two Mosques, Mosul, 02.12.05
Posted by: | Comments“The Battle of Two Mosques” – This entry in my Iraq War Diary recalls a battle between American troops and insurgent fighters in Mosul, Iraq, on February 12, 2005; five years ago today. I have made just a few, minor grammatical corrections to the original post, which was then password-protected and available only to friends and family. I was working as an embedded photojournalist at the time.
Posted by jim on February 17, 2005 at 12:27:37:
A lot of people have been asking me about the other day, when my captions said I was in a four-hour running gun battle, but I was too tired to write, and it takes a few days to catch up on my rest before I find spare time again. (Today, as it turns out, I have a lot of time because I skipped my mission while recovering from a little knee strain, but it’s no big problem.)
I was sleeping-in because I had a late mission, planning to go out at 11a.m. with the battalion commander on his daily “battlefield circulation,” but at about 0930, he sent a runner to grab me in the hooch. He said they were rolling out in five minutes because another convoy was having “contact,” which means fighting.
The Blizzard of 1996
Posted by: | CommentsWith Philadelphia on the brink of its second major winter storm in a week – and third of the season – I was reminded of this photo I made there after the Blizzard of 1996 – still the city’s all-time greatest single storm – which buried the City of Brotherly Love under 30 inches of snow.
Space Shuttle Endeavor: 1995
Posted by: | CommentsSpace shuttle Endeavor is on schedule to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in a few hours. I photographed this previous Endeavor night launch in 1995, from nearby Titusville, Fl., using a Nikon F4 and Nikkor 500mm f4.0 lens on a monopod, with Ektachrome 400 35mm film.
I had been in Florida to cover the Philadelphia Phillies at spring training, and drove several hours across the state, arriving with less than 10 minutes to spare. I photograhed the first few minutes of the flight, hopped in my car and drove back to Clearwater, just in time to go back to work. I was very sleepy.
Iraq War Diary – January 30, 2005: Election Day; Birthday in Mosul
Posted by: | CommentsHappy Birthday to me! I survived the first Iraqi elections.
I’ve been up for 18 hours and I’m too jittery to sleep. Plus, I am still waiting for my roommate, a photographer from another wire service, to return. I’ve been using his power supply for my satellite modem for several days now – since mine was destroyed by a power surge, the second time that happened this year – and now I think he might need to use some of my gear.
When I saw him last, at one of the polling stations today, I learned that he and another colleague had survived, unharmed, after a roadside bomb struck their Stryker. Yet, when bailing out under the threat of a coordinated ambush, there just isn’t time to grab your gear. Read More→
Just try to stop watching
Posted by: | CommentsTime lapse video: Exclusive unseen footage of the Airbus A320 salvaged after the Miracle on the Hudson http://su.pr/2I0heL







