Mark on February 27th, 2010

Barring two upsets — Norway in curling and the U.S. in hockey — it appears as though Canada will finish the 2010 Winter Olympics not only with the most gold medals, but with the most gold medals ever won by a country at a winter Olympics. Good for us. That’s a helluva an accomplishment and [...]

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Mark on February 19th, 2010

          All photos shot with Canon G10; converted to grayscale in Aperture.

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Mark on February 19th, 2010

This one’s for my students. You get better by doing, which means always practicing. It’s not about the assignments and the grades; it’s about going out and pushing. Challenge yourself. Take your camera out today and shoot as though cropping had never been invented. Make every pixel in every image count. Take a walk through [...]

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Mark on February 18th, 2010
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Mark on February 17th, 2010

We journalists love our aphorisms. One of them popped into my Tweet stream this morning: “News is something everyone wants to repress. The rest is advertising.” (The most-loved it would seem, based on how often we hear it, is: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”) All such sayings are cute and [...]

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Mark on February 14th, 2010
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Mark on February 9th, 2010
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Mark on February 8th, 2010

 

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Mark on February 5th, 2010
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