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Alex, thank you for this. This type of talk is important in every daily life. True interest in anther person's life, no matter the connection, can lead to long relationships and interesting stories. After all every best friend starts out as a complete stranger.
Commented Dec 12, 2012 on Why Small Talk is such a Big Deal at Assignment Chicago
Why Small Talk is such a Big Deal
A daughter coming home from college, at center, reunites with her mom, at right, and brother, who tricked her into believing they were waiting at the airport, not the train station. If there's any place to feel like a creep, it's probably at a place like Union Station above, where people ar...
It's important to remember to always go back to the root of it all, whether our jobs, relationships or our faith. There we can find how to keep in flight.
Thanks for the very refreshing post.
Commented May 9, 2012 on Photojournalism not Photography at Assignment Chicago
Photojournalism not Photography
I made the picture above for a Tribune investigative series on the proliferation of flame retardant chemicals in U.S. households. The stories began Monday and run for four days. Despite what we've been led to believe, flame retardants loaded into the foam of our furniture offer no safety bene...
This is probably my favorite post so far. A good way of giving people the reality of things. ;)
Commented Jan 25, 2012 on Q&A With Taylor Glascock, Creator of "$#*! Photojournalists Like" at Assignment Chicago
Q&A With Taylor Glascock, Creator of "$#*! Photojournalists Like"
© 2011 Taylor Glascock A few weeks ago, I was on the popular photojournalism blog “Shit Photojournalists Like” and noticed that the creator of the site, Taylor Glascock, was coming to the Peoria Journal Star for an internship. She has since started working in our Land of Lincoln, offering a...
Nice view on the other side of the coin!
Commented Oct 13, 2011 on A Photojournalist Is Only As Good as The Equipment He Uses? at Assignment Chicago
A Photojournalist Is Only As Good as The Equipment He Uses?
The Mark VI Zeiss projector in the Adler Planetarium's historic Sky Theater in Chicago. The projector can simulate the night sky and project drawings of the constellations on the ceiling screen. (Alex Garcia/Chicago Tribune) When I saw the recent Facebook update from Nikon about how "a photo...
This by far one my favorite posting. I love the words he described the darkroom, "souped and printed." All the things about the cameras, film, lifestyle, community...things have certainly changed. I'm sure when someone interviews you, Alex, in the next generation of photojournalism, you'll be talking about how crazy it was using your eyes to make pictures.
Commented May 11, 2011 on Colorful Insights From a Press Photographer - A Half-Century Later at Assignment Chicago
Colorful Insights From a Press Photographer - A Half-Century Later
Gerry Souter was a photography student from the Art Institute who came to the work as a press photographer for the Chicago Tribune in 1964. He stayed two years. In that time, he had a view of photojournalism that we will never see again. Since that time, he has become a media consul...
Thanks Alex, It works now.
When you say student, can one be a "student" of life and still get the discount? Haha. Just kidding.
Commented Jan 7, 2011 on Tuesday Tips: Becoming a Better Photographer at Assignment Chicago
Tuesday Tips: Becoming a Better Photographer
My colleague Chris Walker, above, found himself staring at the ceremonial marker at the South Pole while on assignment for the Tribune. How cool is that? I'm still jealous! But where might your talents take you as you develop them? You'll get a lot of good photography tips if you join Chris...
I'll try to make it. It would be a great opportunity.
Your link seems to point to the tribune webmail login page.
I think this is what you wanted: http://tribuphoto.eventbrite.com/
Commented Jan 5, 2011 on Tuesday Tips: Becoming a Better Photographer at Assignment Chicago
Tuesday Tips: Becoming a Better Photographer
My colleague Chris Walker, above, found himself staring at the ceremonial marker at the South Pole while on assignment for the Tribune. How cool is that? I'm still jealous! But where might your talents take you as you develop them? You'll get a lot of good photography tips if you join Chris...
Is quite something to experience. I knew in the Body Worlds exhibit real human specimens were used, but never really hit me the humanity of it until I saw a piece (no pun intended) with a tattoo. It really struck me that these "things" were walking talking human beings at one point. It is truly a mixture of art and science.
Commented Dec 14, 2010 on Our Bodies, Exhibited at Assignment Chicago
Our Bodies, Exhibited
Chicago may have its own semi-permanent exhibit of plastinated bodies at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Lincoln Park. Because of the popularity of "Body Worlds", the museum has brought in a similar exhibit, produced by a competitor, called "Our Body: The Universe W...
Happy Indeed. Go Pullman.
Commented Oct 12, 2010 on Pullman Community Center - All Smiles And That's OK at Assignment Chicago
Pullman Community Center - All Smiles And That's OK
At a ground-breaking ceremony for a huge community center in the Pullman District, there were smiles, tears and much joyful noise. As a professional-press-conference-ground-breaking-attender, it's easy for me to become inured to the good news that comes from the microphone. Whatever announc...
It's never too early for a photographer, just being "too late" is what you don't want.
Commented Sep 8, 2010 on Loop Fridays - A Splattering of Light at Assignment Chicago
Loop Fridays - A Splattering of Light
I think about the artist Jackson Pollock when light gets splattered on the front of buildings - especially when the structure is the Art Institute. Just a thought, but someday a student should install colorful gels on the windowed-building across the street to give passerbys a painterly Polloc...
The best camera you have is the camera you have on you. Feels like the first day of class with JHW.
Commented Sep 8, 2010 on Tuesday Tips: One of my Worst Mistakes, Ever at Assignment Chicago
Tuesday Tips: One of my Worst Mistakes, Ever
Today's tip should be classified under the "Basic" file. Or maybe, "Real Basic". Better yet, "So-Basic-It- Could-End-Your-Career-Basic". Twenty years ago last week, I was a college graduate, jobless. My photojournalist brother was freelancing for a wire service here in Chicago and offered to ...
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Commented Jun 29, 2010 on Doing Life Together at Assignment Chicago
Doing Life Together
While walking along the Chicago River these two ducks passed by me, paddling side-by-side in the bumpy waters. I don't normally photograph birds but there was something about the twosome that was fun to watch. Maybe it was because they were making better time than some motorists in the Loop...
I like "Keep in Flight" :)
Commented Jun 2, 2010 on Tuesday Tips: A Summary of "100 Photo Tips" at Assignment Chicago
Tuesday Tips: A Summary of "100 Photo Tips"
Before this blog was migrated to the Chicago Tribune, I wrote a post called "100 Tips for 100 Photos", marking my 100th blog post at my previous site. Many of my current readers are unaware of it. There were tips, but also reflections, conclusions, and ruminations. They were one sentence each,...
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on yesterday's photo. The thought process of shooting and editing on the computer is great to see. I'll forward this article to those who describe photography as, like spudart said, "oh it's easy, it's just one photo."
Commented May 25, 2010 on A Look at Outtakes from a Typical Day at Assignment Chicago
A Look at Outtakes from a Typical Day
Today being "Photo Tip Tuesday", I'm imparting some of my shooting and editing process as a photojournalist - pictures from a "wide edit' of yesterday's posting from the Loop. A typical day on the street in Chicago. On the comments on the next page, I hope to show some of the many decis...
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