Upgrade Dilemma
Both winner and loser
Uptown Upgrades
Stumbling sometimes takes you places you never expected and can offer great challenges. This was a stumble. Went to check on the status of the construction of the old Book Harbour property and first thought it was a city electric crew working in Uptown. It wasn’t. An easy stumble.
Knew that I needed the Holmes Hotel cupola in the background as a balancing element for the worker in the bucket. The hard part was getting into a position where the cupola contributed to telling the story of place and act as a symmetrical balance object. This required the bucket to be in a very specific place on the pole.
I waited through several travels to the top of the pole with the only important action being the movement of the lift bucket. Stopping at measure increments, the worker began fastening cable to the pole. He stopped just where I wanted him and spent just enough time tying down the cable.
What you don’t see in this photo are several wires than run just out of the frame. I could only stand in one spot at the far end of the church’s children’s garden to get this angle with the cupola background and to shoot between the cables.
Shot RAW on Nikon Z5 with 300mm f4 lens. Edited in Photoshop with Adobe Camera Raw. Final edit with Photoshop plugin Luminar Neo.
No Longer On The Job
It’s been about a month since This Week and The Public Opinion were closed by their parent company, Gannett, owners of The Columbus Dispatch.
Shane Flanigan, one of the photographers who lost their job when the paper stopped publishing was chosen Sunday as the Ohio News Photographers Photographer of the Year for small-market newspapers.
Several of Shane’s photos are in the announcement and on the ONPA website. Listen to the Buckeye Visualist, the ONPA podcast, for a conversation with Shane whose photos are also featured on the podcast site.
Follow Shane on his Twitter and Instagram accounts and his website to see what happens next to the prize-winning and unemployed photographer. Obviously, he’s a great photographer. A prize-winning photographer. Without a job.
Other Winners
Jeremy Wadsworth of The (Toledo) Blade won the ONPA Clip Photographer of the Year award ahead of the second-place winner (Isaac Ritchey, The Blade) by more points than most of the other photographers in the top 20. Of course, there’s a slide show. The announcement. Four of the top five clip contest winners are from The Blade. Shane Flanigan, above, who worked for a weekly, was ninth.
PhotoCamp Daily
I’m constantly checking out photo books by Stephen Shore through the inter-library loan process at the Westerville Public Library. His work is remarkable. This interview in The New Yorker cements my affection for his process and results. I’ll be returning The Gardens at Giverny later this week. Seven years of photographs from Monet’s garden.
Remarkable work by New York Times photographers Lynsey Addario, Laura Boushnak, Emile Ducke, Brendan Hoffman, Daniel Berehulak, Tyler Hicks, Mauricio Lima, David Guttenfelder, Laetitia Vancon, Finbarr O’Reilly, and Nicole Tung is highlighted in this one-year look at the war in Ukraine. It won’t be comfortable to see these photos but you must see them and read the photographer’s comments.
East Palestine
Patrick Witty’s newsletter, Field of View, observes photo coverage of the train crash and fires in East Palestine. Witty is a former National Geographic, WIRED, TIME, and New York Times photo editor.
Pittsburgh AP photographer Gene Puskar was among the first news photographers arriving in East Palestine. His ground-level photos of the smoke plume and aerials of the crash site stand out in his coverage of the early days of the crash.
Living life in the movies in East Palestine - from CNN.
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