You, me and Uncle Maury, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

I attended the New England Press Association workshops last week. Dave
Solomon, our managing editor and president of NEPA asked me to put
together a workshop on photography for reporters. I think it was
well-received. I’m always happy to help folks up the quality of their
photography.

Much of my schtick was about rethinking the when and why they go about
making thier pictures as well as the how. I often said that you don’t
really need the Big Guns to make photos for many of the assignments.
Yeah I’m looking forward to taking possesion of a new Canon EOS Mark III
but I also look forward to using my Nikon Coolpix while on the job.
It’s super portable, has a great macro feature and is just plain fun.

Alex Majoli is my hero. A photographer with the photo agency Magnum he
has used one-touch cameras in his photojournalism and has made some
fabulous images. As Eamon Hickey wrote about him on Rob Galbraith’s
great digital photography resource site “the same camera your snap happy
Uncle Maury takes to Disney World.”

I think about Majoli when I’m out shooting and I sense that stuff gets
in the way of what I’m trying to do, tell someone’s story. Here’s a
photo I took of a dew-covered bloom at Beaver Brook in Hollis awhile
ago. So remember. It’s often where you point that camera and when you
push the shutter that makes the photo, not the camera itself.

-Don Himsel

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