I recently photographed Tom Tancredo in his Jefferson County home for NRC, a dutch publication.  Tancredo is a former congressman from Colorado who made his political bed on issues related to immigration.  He recently took his not-so-infrequent dip into hot water after making a speech at the Tea Party Convention where he suggested a poll [...]

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I woke up this morning behind the steering wheel of the rental car that I’ve been living in since last Saturday. I just wrapped up a really fun gig that kept me in Montana for a week and, somewhere in the early morning hours of driving home along Wyoming’s northern Rockies, I reached a point [...]

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In that order.  I’m heading out tomorrow morning for Portland.  An assignment in Montana will take me and whatever rental car I have waiting at the airport through Idaho and into one of my favorite states.  Planning on returning to Colorado before the week is out.  Cell phone will be the easiest way to reach [...]

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Newsweek’s overseas edition picked up an old photograph of mine form Mexico.  The final layout ended up using it as a cropped graphic element to divide up the page, but that’s life.  The initial appeal for making the photograph was to remember the quote behind the statue.  It’s one of my favorites, something that I [...]

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Every so often the backlog of outtakes catches up to me.  It’s been a while since the last time this happened.  Most of the shoots from this month were assignment-based, leaving little scrap on the floor that I can share.  Just finished ingesting a card full of images that I’ve been snapping in my daily [...]

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Last post we established that copyright affords its holder a specific bundle of rights. These rights allow the holder to control aspects of the duplication of their work. Generally speaking, these rights include:
.          1. The right to exclude others from copying your work
.          2. [...]

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I shot a quick piece for The Wall Street Journal in December that finally just found a home in the weekend edition of the publication.  The story covers a few key players in Bouder, Colorado’s efforts to bring its community in line with greener energy standards.  It explores some unexpected resistance from residents who, in [...]

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A certain portion of my photography is a matter of making sketches and short observations about a specific thing or place.  I usually don’t share these frames in sequence (or, for that matter, at all), but they’re still something that I think is very important in terms of the value of the process of photographing. [...]

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Given the current state of the editorial world, it might come as a surprise to discover that the constitutional backdrop against which federal copyright law is painted was historically envisioned as a mechanism to promote publishing.  Gallows humor aside, the idea behind extending protection to certain kinds of intellectual property was a matter of incentivizing [...]

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First, and perhaps most important, this last set of Polaroids does start with clowns and end with a cowboy pissing off a cliff.  This is really the self-selecting process of the stack method of editing.  Things pile up, the oddities collect and sort themselves to the side, and eventually the get spit out in a [...]

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