Tag Archives: Photography

If you spend much time browsing sites like Facebook, Instagram or Threads, you've surely seen some lousy photo captions lately.

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edition of the Ellipsis Monday Photo Shoot involves your photo archives:   the assignment is to pull a previously-unpublished...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