Warren Jeffs Sentencing - The End
November 25, 2007 | 1 Comment
There weren’t any more cameras than usual when polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced last week. The difference was that everyone crowded around the courthouse door.
Here’s Lamar Johnson leaving. After the FLDS members (a collection of top-tier Warren Jeffs’ supporters) had left, the only shots were attorneys being mobbed by cameras.
Defense attorney Tara Isaacson. Inside the court, the Spectrum shot the pool coverage. Once again, no reaction from Warren Jeffs. In the courtroom, he’s shown very little emotion throughout this trial.
Defense attorney Walter Bugden.
Washington County Attorney Brock Belnap.
Here’s the view from the other side, in a photo provided by an unnamed photographer. (That’s me at center right in red.)
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November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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We believe Bilal Hussein’s crime was taking photographs the U.S. government did not want its citizens to see. That he was part of a team of AP photographers who had just won a Pulitzer Prize for work in Iraq may have made Bilal even more of a marked man.
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News photographers from five Illinois newspapers were surprised to discover they were banned by the Illinois High School Association from covering the state’s two-day, eight-game high school football championship games this weekend.
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November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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99.9% of the time, I crop the photo while I am shooting it so that once it comes out of my camera it’s exactly how I want it. If I leave dead space in an image or I stand back and give the subject room to breathe, I am doing it on purpose.
Review: My Jihad
November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
My Jihad: One American’s Journey Through the World of Usama Bin Laden–as a Covert Operative for the American Government
Aukai Collins makes for a very interesting character in recent world events. An American citizen, he signs up for jihad in Chechnya, trains in Afghanistan, and eventually gets caught up with the FBI in some (from his point of view) ridiculous efforts to infiltrate the world of Islamic terrorism.
There we met three Arabs who would also be going to Chechnya. Two were from Saudi Arabia and one was from Yemen. Abu Jaffar, the Yemeni, was a little guy, probably not more than five foot seven and not even 150 pounds. He was someone I was to become familiar with in Chechnya; he would eventually become a principal officer under Ibn-ul Khattab, the legendary Arab field commander. The other two guys were from the holy city of Mecca. Of the four of us who made the trip into Chechnya that day, I am the only one left alive.
Collins’ tales of guerilla combat in Chechnya are chilling. Descriptions of ambushes and executions and the ferocity of the Chechen people are vivid. Later in the book, he details the efforts of the FBI and CIA to send him into Chechnya to spy on the Islamists. This is where things get confusing, because Collins never really gets anywhere doing this. Nowhere in the book does he actually do any undercover work, despite the subtitle of the book. Instead, his efforts are hampered by the government’s bureaucratic fumbling.
The Agency, in its infinite wisdom, had decided that in order for me to proceed to the next phase of the operation - entering Chechnya- as a diplomatic nicety they would first have to declare me to their Russian counterparts at the FSB. If you’ve read this book from page 1, it should be apparent to you that the FSB was thoroughly compromised, with everyone from rogue agents to operatives working for the highest bidder. I’d planned to use the fact that they were compromised in order to get into Chechnya in the first place; if the Agency declared me as an asset I would surely be killed before reaching Khattab.
My Jihad: One American’s Journey Through the World of Usama Bin Laden–as a Covert Operative for the American Government
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November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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for those that still don’t appreciate the benefits of working with raw files, here are a couple of examples that I recently created to demonstrate this issue to some students at one of my seminars.
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Scott photographed the Cagwin family for years back in the late 90’s. The family eventually sold the farm and now a subdivision exists there. So some of these photos could be up to a decade or so apart.
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Portraying love and loss in black and white, a group of photographers gives parents cherished images of their dead or dying newborns.
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Chris Hondros, a staff photographer for Getty Images, took these images while riding around Baghdad in Humvees with the U.S. military this month.
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Alright people, it’s almost Thanksgiving and I want to make sure you’re prepared to meet your aunt’s sister in law’s son who is also a photographer
