Ever wondered what it’s like behind the scenes of trying to cover a war? Here’s a few videos I found thanks to the web site From the Frontline. They are pretty disturbing.
A Georgian TV journalist is fired upon and injured during live shot.
TV journalists coming under fire in Gori, the Georgian town 30km from South Ossetia. It aired on the Turkish NTV channel.
And perhaps the most disturbing is this one. Which reportedly shows the aftermath of an attack that killed a Dutch cameraman.
The other day I was reading a discussion on a popular forum for photographers about Twitter, the micro blogging tool that’s becoming ever more popular. The basic consensus from these photographers was “I don’t get it.”
I use Twitter, however it’s pretty easy to say that not every one gets it. And those that do understand what it’s about have thousands of reasons why they use it. I myself have more than one reason to use Twitter besides the obvious reason; that I’m a geek.
One of the reasons I use it is for crowd-sourcing things that correspond with my job. Here’s an example.
We had an incident a while back where I had to quickly choose an image for the paper. Then I spent a little time putting the rest of the pictures together for a slide show.
After everything was published I had someone question why I chose one photo over another. I sent this person a detailed email stating my thought process and that was the end of it. But later it occurred to me that it would be interesting to find out what a variety of other people thought.
So I posted the question to my twitter feed. It was quite interesting to see the responses I got back. Not only did other photographers and photo editors chime in with their thoughts. I received compelling answers back from local readers too.
Click though the slide show below to see my question, the pictures and some of the answers.
This little exercise really brought home the potential benefits being involved in social networking such as this. It allows me to connect with people in my profession and with local readers. It allows them to feel in touch with me, and what I do.
