I asked Mantoani about the project a year ago this week, and it’s great to see that he didn’t run out of the gigantic, expensive Polaroid film he uses.

I could edit for hours without any true sense of time or weather. It felt a lot like living in the analog darkroom I used as a student.

The White House Flickr photostream makes President Obama look like James Bond.

I don’t know about you guys, but all these protests are awfully exciting. The Libyan photos were actually feeling especially romantic, which was pretty alarming until I realized that they were reminding me of some of my favorite photojournalism from the Spanish Civil War.

I had about 12 hours from interviewing Evan Gregory from the group to having to send the piece into my editor. A bit nerve-wracking since I haven’t written anything since July but it went exceptional well.

Recent months have seen a ramping up of my writing activities, something I’m happy to see joining my photos in various outlets, or even standing on its own.

Flickr posted in their blog a “success story” of a member licensing his photo to Getty, whom have their fingers in every photo kool-aid around, and having it sell. Not only did it sell, but it was for an ADVERTISEMENT, which is the bread and sweet, sweet butter of all sorts of photographers.

My lack of distinction between a busy, underpaid freelancer and a semi-busy, way underpaid general assignment reporter was exactly what got me the interview.

This video had a wonderful DP with the eye of a photographer. The setups remind me a lot of Will’s videos, which are photo compositions one after another.

Honey Pie from California is a place. on Vimeo.

I know my fair share about Real Dolls, having once written an article about sex dolls. I put it on my website, thinking it would make a fine portfolio piece. That I could send a link to editors, who might like it and lavish me with assignments.

I am not sure editors are the ones seeing it.

Now 6 of the top ten search terms that bring people to my site are related to sex dolls. It appears these searchers are doing some comparative researching before making the plunge into a 6k+ investment. I hope they find my article informative in their decision making. I also hope some of them might be editors who can appreciate some good writing when they see it.

Too often I find that no matter how I try to shape a story, or what I want to include, it forms organically and something good gets lost in the mix.