“Ultimately any good war photography becomes anti-war,” says English war photojournalist Interview with Capture, 2005).

And been there he has, in Vietnam, Kossovo, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Nicaragua and Lebanon. He’s also been wounded four times by a landmine, shrapnel and even friendly fire.

Page at the Requiem exhibition at the War Remnants Museum, Saigon by Peter Stuckings

Page’s most recent journey took him to Afghanistan to train promising young students in photojournalism. But he probably became best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War, work that has become iconic and featured in books such…

The winners of the 2009 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism were announced in Sydney on November 27 and images from the finalists in the five photographic categories will tour to Brisbane, Newcastle and Perth in 2010.

With emotive, celebratory and evocative images of daily life, sports and spot news both in Australia and around the world; photographs depicted an array of events and topics from Victoria’s terrible bushfires to the glory of the Olympic Games and the loss and pain in refuge camps in Congo.

The Nikon sponsored awards include daily life, sport, news, photographic essay and the coveted award for Press Photographer of the Year. This went to Renee Nowytarger from The Australia for her body of work that features an exhausted Malcolm Turnbull.

Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the year:
Renee Nowytarger, The Australian

Daily Life / Feature Photography:
Kirk Gilmour, Illawarra Mercury & The Sydney Morning Herald: Batten Down the Boogie Boards

Sport Photography:
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Exotic creatures, a man’s wisdom, the importance of communication. These are subjects that are often unappreciated, mostly for the lack of easily understandable and intimate knowledge about them. These are areas that are, save for some basic tidbits, almost untouched; and the few things we know about them are not enough to truly see their beauty and essence.

Andrew Zuckerman’s work changes all that. His books Read the full post

And speaking of kicking guts, Canon surely knows to hit it right where it hurts most. The Nikon 300s’ main selling point is its ability to take videos—something that a lot of people were looking for. But with the Canon 7D’s release, Nikon 300s is losing a big part of its appeal.

The 7D’s video-taking capabilities can be considered the best in the market today. It has the ability to shoot 1080p video at 30, 24, or 25 frames per second (FPS). And, if you decrease that to 720p, you can take photos at a whopping 60FPS.

This camera also has a dedicated switch that allows the photographer to flip from video to stills in a heartbeat. The button encircles a stop/record button for the video, too.

Here are some sample videos taken with the Gizmodo):

Official video samples can be viewed at Canon Japan’s web site.

I have been checking out Jerry’s website “Catching the Light” and I think it is one of the best presented websites.  His sports page is filled with 25 years of wonderful black and white and color pictures with good captions for you to study.  You can learn a lot just by studying the photos-the vision, position, expression, angles, and lighting.

You will also enjoy reading through each topic on Jerry’s tips and techniques web page.  Each topic is filled with brief, well written, straight to the point, not too wordy prose.  Have you checked out other websites- they overwhelm you with so much information that you are exhausted or overwhelmed.  Not Jerry’s, so take some time to go through his “Tips and Techniques” page.

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“The best camera is the one that’s with you.”

And for Chase Jarvis, that camera would be his iPhone.

A lot of people complain that the iPhone camera isn’t good, and that it doesn’t take good photos. Well, Chase successfully proved with this project that a “good photo” is not defined by a cutting-edge camera, but rather, by the one who takes the shot. He takes between 1 to 1000 photos every day, he says, and to some that may be a tad too obsessive. Well when someone really loves what he does, and he has the thing he needs to do it all time, why shouldn’t he?

Chase shares at least one photo everyday, taken and directly uploaded from his iPhone, through his iPhone photo gallery contains his favorite shots, completely untouched by Photoshop and are post processed using only iPhone applications.

Here are some photos Chase took using…

My shipment of  great photos from the world renowned Magnum. What a fantastic collection of diverse images from the last 60 years at Magnum. If you are somewhat interested in photography, I would certainly recommend picking up a copy of Magnum Magnum.

First thing you will notice is the sheer size and weight of this book. Its well over 500 pages that are mixed with wonderful black and white images as well as superb colour. The one thing that stood out right away was that the commentary for each photographer was done by a fellow photographer. For example, Magnum so great.

So where…

I’m not trying to steal anything from Chase here. So today I would like every one of you to find a few photos that you have taken and post them. Here are the instructions from his site.

1. ‘Become a fan’ on my Facebook fan page. (NOT my personal page, but the FAN page. Follow that link…)
2. Under the “wall” tab in the ‘what’s on your mind’ window atop the page, write your name and a url if you’d like.
3. In that same window, directly below where you just wrote your name, click on the ‘add photos’ icon.
4. Upload your favorite mobile image. No limit to the number of entries. Anyone can enter, from anywhere in the world.
5. When you win, I’ll send you my iphone in the mail. Easy peasy.

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