Mark Holm: Our photos hold up a mirror to the world and share the responsibility of reporting the news

The contrast presented itself at my first weekly planning meeting as The Trib's director of photography.

Having previously worked at four newspapers — which tended to handle their photo departments more as quick-serve operations, with resulting pictures simply breaking up large bodies of gray type, often falling short of adding content to the story — I learned things worked differently at The Tribune.

All departments stood shoulder to shoulder in their effort to bring readers the best of their collective efforts. The professionals here — whether armed with cameras or notepads, pica poles or purse strings — had a sense of ownership about their craft and a sense of partnership with their colleagues.

In my first week on the job, one of our photo interns, Jennah Ward, captured pictures in southeastern New Mexico oil fields to accompany a story by Ollie Reed Jr.


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Mounds Park begins photo contest

Mounds State Park invites residents to enter nature images in an inaugural photography competition. Mounds Park begins photo contest The Herald Bulletin Mounds State Park invites residents to enter nature images in an inaugural photography competition. The staff is looking for beautiful photographs taken at the park, including landscapes, river scenes, plants, animals, people, the mounds, and more. Images eligible for the competition must have been taken between September 2007 and March 2008.

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Author tells Clifton's story with a camera

CLIFTON -- For an English major with no formal art training, Sandra Giordano is doing well for herself in the world of photography.

Giordano, 38, shot the photographs for her new book, "Clifton: Then and Now," the latest in a series on city history.

The book features historical photographs of Clifton buildings and parks a century ago compared side by side with their present-day counterparts.

In "Then and Now" Giordano details some of the ornate architecture of Clifton's downtown buildings.

"When you live here all your life, you walk past these buildings on Main Street and don't notice them," she said.

Released last week, the book is the third volume about Clifton in Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series (those sepia-toned paperbacks stacked in the history section of Barnes & Noble).


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F-STOP: How Digital Eclipsed the Film Camera

It's been a remarkable run. Daguerre developed his device for capturing images nearly 170 years ago, and since that time, and especially since erstwhile bank clerk George Eastman gave up his steady salary to form the Eastman Kodak company in 1888, the camera had almost come to symbolise personal technology, a bit of science that most could use consistently.

This became particularly true with the introduction, in the early 1930s, of the 35mm single reflex camera - the closest ancestor of the hand-held cameras of today - and also with the introduction, in 1948, of the instant picture, or Polaroid camera.

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