Archive for Photojournalism
Space Shuttle Endeavor: 1995
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1995
Space 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
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01.30.05 - U.S. troops take cover from sniper fire near a polling station in Mosul.
Happy 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
Frosted City
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Snow coats rowhome rooftops, looking south across the Washington West section of Center City Philadelphia at dusk Sunday, after a record-breaking winter weekend storm dropped nearly two feet of snow on the city.
2002: Living in Fear
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In 2002, I spent three weeks reporting on the DC sniper attacks. In this photo, police watch as parents pick up their children at a Maryland elementary school, one day after a one of the snipers’ victims was killed nearby. Tonight, convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad has been executed.
