tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904006.post5958824494824173736..comments2023-05-31T08:23:32.968-05:00Comments on PhotoJournalism: Do we run pretty pictures?Mark M. Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437709649380849793noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904006.post-48089531820887514662007-01-11T11:29:00.000-06:002007-01-11T11:29:00.000-06:00Marie,
How does your paper run them? Are they scat...Marie,<br />How does your paper run them? Are they scattered througout the paper? Is there a special hole for one each day? (that would suck the fun out of it)Mark M. Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09437709649380849793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904006.post-84108779488727062492007-01-11T09:02:00.000-06:002007-01-11T09:02:00.000-06:00My community newspaper does run pretty photos-land...My community newspaper does run pretty photos-landscapes-birds-bugs--which is as popular with our readers as it is with the judges at the NC Press Association. From our reader's perspective, the pretty photos verify the beautiful place in which they live and see every day. Fact is, Boone, North Carolina and the surrounding counties just don't have one heck of alot of spot news stories so countingMariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13368844217331366221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904006.post-92200655224806955032007-01-07T13:22:00.000-06:002007-01-07T13:22:00.000-06:00It's the Gulf Coast. We sweat/flowers bloom in Jan...It's the Gulf Coast. We sweat/flowers bloom in January. ;-)<br />We had about six hours of freezing weather this year, so the bugs are sleeping.<br />I think my point is what happens to images if we're NOT telling a story?<br />The raindrop or a bug creates a verb: "A drop of rain balances..." or "A bug walks..."<br />What do we do with aesthetic nouns? It's not a problem to put them on the Web Mark M. Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09437709649380849793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904006.post-59799547425178963062007-01-07T03:28:00.000-06:002007-01-07T03:28:00.000-06:00The only thing that remotely bothers me is that I ...The only thing that remotely bothers me is that I don't know what kind of flowers they are, why they're blooming in January (is that normal for Texas??) and if it was around town or at a public garden. <br /><br />I've had to publish several "pretty pictures" in the couple years I've been shooting, and for me it's always been a two-sided affair. On one hand, it's an aesthetic treat for the brain Bryon Houlgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12155356026217835844noreply@blogger.com