Tag Archives: Photography

The debate over stock photos vs. original photos churns up from time to time across the blogosphere. But there's not really a single right answer.

When I first drove home from the newsroom after Hurricane Matthew had passed us by, I was worried about one tree in particular.

Facebook reversed a decision this week on its nudity policy with respect to a single photo after the social media giant received complaints of censorship.

When a stock photography company sent a bill for use of 'unlicensed' photography, it could be said they picked the wrong person to threaten.

To me, it's an annoying trend in blog images: taking a perfectly good image and writing all over it. How...

Last week's edition of the TXBloggers weekly Twitter chat focused on the second half of "20 Things Every Blog Must...

I make no bones about the fact that I use a good deal of stock photography in posts here at...

The New York Times defended a particularly graphic photo of a victim of the Empire State Building shooting Friday, stating that the photo appeared on its website because it was a newsworthy image. But its newsworthiness is hardly the main point here.

My blog readers sometimes ask me where I get all of the various blog images I use here at Patrick's Place.

Over the weekend, I did something I thought I might never do: I attended a one-on-one photography workshop with a...

Well that didn't last long. There was probably close to two inches of snow here in Charleston when I got...

If I had been a little more on the ball, I could have had this photo be my response to...

This week's edition of the Ellipsis Monday Photo Shoot involves your photo archives:   the assignment is to pull a previously-unpublished...

In my ongoing effort to buy a new camera to replace the ailing one I'd had for years, I decided...

Sometimes Walmart just makes my head ache. Yeah, I know, what can I really expect from a Walmart? But I'm...

I know this is going to seem like a pretty random post, but I've been trying to clean house a bit, and I ran across a photocopy of a page from a book on Richmond, Virginia that mentioned something at its famous Hollywood Cemetery.