Category Archives: photography

posts about photos I’ve added to my Flickr account

The AP photo that BP hoped would never appear

Posted on Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Rex Hammock

Link: Boston.com I predict this AP photo by Charlie Riedel will win a Pulitzer. It is one of those images you will remember forever — it is that searing. Despite me being a teenager at the time, I can still … Continue reading →

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Get your news from print: the recyclable medium. It’s like being a content vegan.

Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 by Rex Hammock

I feel certain that after you read this PDF from the Congressional Research Service about the global e-waste crisis, you’ll join with me in starting a worldwide movement to encourage people to stop consuming content from e-waste producing devices (that … Continue reading →

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Flickr now lets anyone be a gallery curator

Posted on Thursday, October 1, 2009 by Rex Hammock

Flickr has long had a feature called “sets” that allows a user to organize groupings of photos in any way the photographer wants to share them. Flickr recently added another feature that, at first, seems to be the same thing … Continue reading →

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Online, in print — it’s all about capturing, sharing and preserving the story

Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2009 by Rex Hammock

Boston.com’s “Big Picture” collection of moving photography of flooding from the southeast makes me think there’s an instant magazine in there somewhere (see yesterday’s post).

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Images of 9.11.2001 that we’ll never forget

Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 by Rex Hammock

Boston.com’s “The Big Picture” is displaying some incredibly moving photography related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. These images are worth all the words I could possibly write.

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