Looking up from the bottom of the tank.
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Underwater in Florida, looking up at fish swimming in the Florida Aquarium in Tampa. I don’t really have anything to write about, photography wise except that I visited the Newseum in Washington, DC on Saturday and saw every photograph that has won a Pulitzer prize. Photojournalism makes my work look predictable for so many commercial reasons; I knew who was paying the bill and they never paid me to capture sadness or human misery.
I only spent a few months working on a small town daily newspaper and it was the best job I ever had. I was covering for a person on leave. I hope that I’ll get to return to a small paper someday. While the large papers are loosing readers, the local papers should continue to do well, at least that’s my prediction. They just need to keep the local news off line.