Photo journalism--I have always enjoyed pictures that tell a story

[Malva Zebrina]

mostly, for some reason, they seem to tell a story better in black and white, but not always--see National Geographic, for instance.

Here are a few I took at a fairgrounds. The camera I was using was an old digital with a very low resolution that someone gave to me!

It had a feature which enabled black and white , although I have also done black and white in the darkroom, which I have not done for ages now.

Please post some of your photos that tell a story, black and white or color.

I do enjoy seeing the creative photos of others.

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1. Those are great. I love amusement parks.

I have a few that are a bit ironic. Would that be a story?

[Malva Zebrina]

2. thanks--I would love to see them

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3. Ok. Irony.

Q: What travel agency/booking office doesn't have posters of Fiji, Greece, or Mexico in their windows? Answer...



Taken in East Berlin, Aug 1991. This was at Re-unification's very beginning.

This one kind of speaks for itself...

[Malva Zebrina]

4. Indeed that is irony

thanks for posting your, perceptions of irony. There is always a person behind the camera, and that person is recording their own views by the pictures they take.


In the first, that tourist looking guy with the backpack and camera, is paying NO attention at all to that very poor office for Soviet Airlines--in fact, he is turning his back on it and that is the story told in that picture, as I see it.

In the second, it speaks for itself. A barren land, advertising itself as an evergreen state.

Brilliant irony and it tells me a story.

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5. That's Rod; my travelling partner.

...He's in a number of my photos of Europe, and you're right, he didn't even notice it. I had to point it out to him...he said "Oh' yeah! Cool! Let's go get some beer now!" :D

Here he is again, after a day of looking for a room in vain...

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

6. Some of mine...

Also this one I took a few years back, which is far too big to post here...

http://www.lkgeorge.org/trackandfield/pictur8. jpg
take out the space after the . to see it.

I'm going into photojournalism. I'd better love it! :hi:

[Malva Zebrina]

7. that last link did not work for me

In my late years, I was a stringer for the local small weekly newspaper(I was a nurse all my life but photography was my hobby and my husband was a professional photographer in his younger days)

I never enjoyed myself so much as I did going out shooting people doing things and trying to tell the story through my camera's eye.

I had to discipline myself to get the facts, as I was expected also to write the story,not just take the pictures, although that was always my primary joy on those assignments, and I drove the editor nuts with my convoluted syntax, but I learned how to tackle that also. I had no training in journalism at all, and have only a degree in Liberal Arts from a junior college,also earned in my late years, but the editor trusted me for some reason, and my pride and joy, at a late age, was winning a first place award at the New England Press Association competing with pros!

So I say, keep shooting--shoot anything--even if it is your big toe!

[Malva Zebrina]

8. OK--now I got that last shot

You have a good eye--

You can almost feel the sweat in that mass of legs and arms. and the girl just visible, sunk in the middle of it all contributes to the story.

[alfredo]

9. Excellent shots

[Malva Zebrina]

10. Made me kind of wonder if that was a tombstone

??? looks like one to me. I also wonder about that building in the background--is that an apartment? and the car? I am hopelessly lost on identifying cars, but that one looks sort of vintage to me.

[alfredo]

11. It is a piece of plywood. Everytime one rots, he makes a new sign

That one was replaced soon after the picture.

What you see in the background is the quonset hut church, and attached to it is the pastor's home.

The car is a generic GM car. Don't remember the brand.

[intheflow]

13. These signs always make me wonder.

I mean, haven't Christians been saying that Jesus is coming soon for over 2000 years now? Just what is their definition of "soon"? LOL!

This also reminds me of a book idea my friend and I had once while driving cross country. We were thinking there might just be a market for photos like this--kind of do-it-yourself Christian iconography. I still think it would be a best-selling coffee table book.

[NJCher]

12. and that's the story

Gourmet cotton candy!! LOLOLOL

And the game is so special that they have an old sign with an interchangeable time card!


Cher

[intheflow]

14. These are excellent, MZ!

Although I wonder: just what are the poeple in the top picture watching? The bottom pictures remind me of the regional fair I used to go to in New England every year; it's making me a little homesick. Where were your photos taken?

Here are my additions to this topic:

Pete and Truman meet the Lobster Brothers.



This was taken in Rockport, Massachusetts, and the
owner of the feet was overlooking a beautiful ocean
view. I got lots of lovely cean views that day, but
I still feel this was the most compelling picture
I took that day. R-n-R in action!

[Malva Zebrina]

16. feet--makes me wonder about the rest of the body

LOL--one summer, we did a tour of all the fairs in Maine that we could. We have a van camper and all of the fairs had a campground at very good prices. We went from the very smallest home town fair, to the very largest where literally thousands of motor homes were parked and overflowed into the fields. The fun was that I could walk around early in the morning when there were no people around, and could also get some great night shots at night, as well as lots of pictures of animals. Some, but not all, of these fairs, have horse racing with betting. That always draws a big crowd . There is only one regular, priv ately owned horse racing track in the entire state that I know of, and casinos were very definately voted down when on the ballot.

I am surprised at the restraint showed by your dogs. I had a black lab that would pick up mussels off the shore , crunch them, and eat the meat. I am certain she would have give a lobster a try too.

[Fovea]

15. One from the Plaza area

Kansas City.

I was shooting a local jogging trail and turned around when
I heard kids yelling. This girl was first out the door of the Russell Stover's candy shop, about 60 feet away.




It is soft, but I was set up for an entirely different shot at about 150' away. Noting that I was not fill flashing, and shooting a bit open with a 80-210 lens at probably around 160mm
1/160 sec - F/6 Her right cuff is spot on focus... That's what happens when you are swinging something long like that Tamron around and shooting from the hip, as it were.

[NashVegas]

17. kids being kids