Farmers Market, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

This one struck a chord with me. Not so much in color but B&W.
Best,
Corey Perrine
The Telegraph
Staff Photographer

Blinded, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Sometimes as photographers we go back through our outtake and wonder
why one slipped through our fingers, this was one of them from .
Best,
Corey Perrine
Staff Photographer
The Telegraph

Photo by COREY PERRINE^^Coe-Brown fans cover their eyes as they watch
the Bears take on the Milford Spartans during the semifinal of the
Class L girls softball tournament June 12 at Memorial Field in
Concord. The Bears ran past the Spartans 7-1.

R.I.P. film, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Funny idea. Boring video.

 -Don Himsel

photo editor

Mississippi, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

If this were Jeopardy, this would be the Photo Daily Double.

Q: You can't spell Mississippi without this.

extreme weather, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

With all the nasty weather in the state lately I thought I'd post
this.

Jim Reed is a Kansas-based photographer who specializes in extreme
weather. He teamed up with Nikon to test their new D700. We used to be
a Nikon shop here but have recently switched to Canons. Regardless,
I've been looking at the new Nikon body and came across this. Reed's
stuff can be found in the landscape section of Nikon's D700 site and you can navigate through the photos using the arrows on either side of the frame.

-Don Himsel
photo editor

NatGeo.jpg, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Photo District News and National Geographic Traveler have teamed up to
produce The Great Outdoors 2008 Gallery. Check out some wonderful
photography.

-Don Himsel
photo editor

Stop the Rain, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Me: Yes, it's been done before but I'VE never done it. So now that
it's out of my system I don't have to worry about shooting it anymore.
Sometime you have to shoot something to say you did it.

The Phone Call: Knowing that it has been done by past photographers I
called my photo editor Don Himsel. We discussed it would be better if
it not run in the paper, although a cool shot, not original enough to
print.

Cutline: Raindrops appear on a car window Wednesday, July 23 in
Nashua. Recent rain and thunder storms have brought flash flooding to
the Nashua region. The rest of the week calls for more rain.

Thanks for looking.
Best,
Corey Perrine
Staff Photogrpaher
The (Nashua) Telegraph

There is a future for newspapers, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Actually found this through an industry blog. Mmmmmmm.

-Don Himsel
photo editor

Dogs on assignment, part 3- Mika, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

-Don Himsel
photo editor

Discuss, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Check out the sweet light on this guys face. Not bad for a semi-overcast day
huh?

--
Grant Morris
Staff Photographer
The Telegraph
603-594-6483
Fax: 603-882-2681

NASCAR #2, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

This might be one of my favorites from all of my three day coverage of the
NASCAR event at Loudon. I had been shooting at a slow shutter speed and
panning to make only one car on the track what we call tack sharp when this
wreck happened. As soon as I saw the collision my first natural instinct was
to take a breath and steady my hand. I knew there would be a picture to be
made. Of the four images from this wreck, this is only one that came out
sharp. The training and experience kick in at moments like this and makes
you realize that this is why you completed all of those lame assignments in
college.

--
Grant Morris
Staff Photographer
The Telegraph

NASCAR #1, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Before the start of the start of the LENOX Industrial Tools 301 race at the
New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, there were a group of four
motorcyclists performing tricks on a 40 foot gap ramp. Since the race was
far more important than the Monster Energy Drink sponsored MX team, the
outtake will have to go here. Enjoy the photo as much as I enjoyed the
weekend in it's entirety.

Grant

--
Grant Morris
Staff Photographer

Dogs on assignment, part 2- Daisy, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

-Don Himsel
photo editor

Humor and photography - What a character Victor is, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

He was standing in the driveway waiting for his dinner when I got there.
As volunteers Nancy Merrill and Jan Brackett of Hudson, got out of their
car, a smile lit up his face. Then he put an unlit cigar in his mouth
and we all began to chuckle.

I was at Victor's home in Nashua, to make a photograph for a column in
The Telegraph about gas prices and the Meals on Wheels program. At the
age of 89, he's doing very well, and has quite the sense of humor. The
volunteer drivers and I were accompanied by volunteer coordinator,
Charlotte Troddyn who needed Victor to sign a release for the program,
after being photographed.

He quickly complied, and asked to use her back as a desk. As she began
to giggle, I took more pictures. There's something about this moment
that makes me smile. After signing his name, he told the ladies to come
back, and he would take them out to dinner. "Just don't forget your
wallet," he said. "I eat a lot."

-Bob Hammerstrom

Dogs on assignment, part 1- Rocky, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Part of an ongoing series. Stay tuned.

-Don Himsel
photo editor

Standing around, wading, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Here's Dan. Dan is the photo editor at The Press Citizen in Iowa City.
Dan used to work here as a photographer. It's nice to touch base with
an alum. Now he's up to his eyeballs, well, hips, in flood water.

Let's be careful out there.

Oh, and for those who may be interested in how this mess is being covered and how you may be able to help journalists affected, go here.

-Don Himsel
photo editor

Media access at campaign events, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

I'm so jealous.

Last week I covered presidential candidate John McCain's Town Hall
Meeting at Daniel Webster College. A colleague of mine told me after the
event that he and his niece were asked to go up on stage with McCain. I
wasn't jealous about going onstage, but to the access I would have had
to photograph him.

Check out this photo carefully. Count how many point-and-shoot cameras,
camera phones, and video cameras you see behind McCain. They are
literally just a few feet from him. Those are close-ups, and I mean
close-ups.

Meanwhile I had been standing on the media risers on the other side of
the gym, 100 feet away squinting to see him. My job was to photograph
him for The Telegraph, where I am a staff photographer. Thousands of
people are going to see my picture of him.

The closer we get to the November election, the harder it is for the
local media to get access to photograph the candidates up close.
Sometimes we rely on the associated press, who have much better access
and longer lenses, to get the close-up shots. But in this case, I should
have given my camera to the people on stage and let them take the photo!

-Bob Hammerstrom

Humor, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Track and field spectators react to Dwight Barbiasz setting a new
state record on the high jump at seven feet Saturday, May 31 at
Merrimack Valley High School in Penacook. Barbiasz also captured the
Class I individual title.

Humor is something I've been too attracted to in my photography but
when it comes my way, I know it's a keeper.

Congrats on the record Dwight and thanks for the humorous photo.
Corey Perrine
The Telegraph
Staff Photographer

Stealing A Piece of Childhood, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Tyler Fazone, 7, and his father Joe had their motocross dirt bikes
stolen from their garage sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday
Morning this week. Apparently criminals took off with a Honda CRF 450R
and a Suzuki JR50. The total loss is valued at around $5,000. The two
have offered a $1,000 reward for their return. "I was devastated
absolutely devastated," Joe said. "Take mine and you shock me, take
his and it was rage. I don't know why you'd take a kids' bike."

This just broke my heart. I could see in the boys eyes today how
distraught he was despite being shy with his words.

What possesses other people to seal property that is not theirs? Tyler
is learning the hard way how cruel humans can be to one another. It's
just a shame how selfish people can be. Alas, I tend to adhere to the
optimism of Anne Frank, "Despite everything, I believe that people are
really good at heart." My two cents.

another outtake, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Another taken with my Coolpix.

-Don Himsel
photo editor

Extra Pictures, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Many people don't realize how expensive newspaper property is. This is
largely the reason why not all of our pictures go into the paper. We as
photographers also love getting our pictures in contests and stuff, not just
to boost the name of the paper but also our egos a little bit. In order to
get said pictures into a contest though they need to have been published at
some time or another. Lucky for us, the photo blog exists. Yesterday I shot
this picture at a track meet in Concord. The subject in the picture
unfortunately goes to a school that wasn't in our coverage area. I'll be the
first to admit that I have what might call a problem, I can't pass up a good
picture, when I see it I shoot first and ask questions later as they say.
This happens to be one of those casually shot images.

Lucky for me and the contest judges, I didn't neglect to get his name before
I walked away.

Thanks for looking!

--
Grant Morris
Staff Photographer
The Telegraph

trout food, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Shot this on my front porch last nite after cutting the lawn. Lit by
the porch light and shot with my Nikon point-and-shoot on macro mode.

-Don Himsel
photo editor

Color vs. B&W, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Sometimes as journalists we are faced with an image looking better in
color or black and white. While most images take favor to color, there
is something mysterious of the power of concentrating on just tonal
range. Ansel Adams and Fred Archer in 1941 created a system of
controlling your black and white exposure through placing your shadows
and developing for your highlights called the Zone System. The result
was a constant method for photographers to have full control of black
and white images for years to come. Although now with the digital age,
that system has become more of a theory of sorts, as control with the
digital darkroom is easier for a wider latitude of people to
experience quality images. However, the principles still remain the
same. This image shot today is an example of two different feelings
from the same image. Which one do you like better? Why?

Me? I have my answer but you'll have to e-mail me to find out :) cperrine@nashuatelegraph.com

Corey Perrine
The Telegraph
Staff Photographer

Color vs. B&W, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Sometimes as journalists we are faced with an image looking better in
color or black and white. While most images take favor to color, there
is something mysterious of the power of concentrating on just tonal
range. Ansel Adams and Fred Archer in 1941 created a system of
controlling your black and white exposure through placing your shadows
and developing for your highlights called the Zone System. The result
was a constant method for photographers to have full control of black
and white images for years to come. Although now with the digital age,
that system has become more of a theory of sorts, as control with the
digital darkroom is easier for a wider latitude of people to
experience quality images. However, the principles still remain the
same. This image shot today is an example of two different feelings
from the same image. Which one do you like better? Why?

Me? I have my answer but you'll have to e-mail me to find out :) cperrine@nashuatelegraph.com

Corey Perrine
The Telegraph
Staff Photographer

Refracted., originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

This past weekend I took a little trip down to Connecticut to visit a friend
of mine from college. We were sitting around talking when her cat jumped up
on the chair next to me. It was then I saw the refraction of the cat's eye
in the kitchen table. Here's the image.

--
Grant Morris
Staff Photographer
The Telegraph

Wilson Farm, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

I went to the farm today. Pet a bull and a cow. How cool.
Corey Perrine
Staff Photographer, The Telegraph

Some pig, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Took a nice walk around Ben Brewster's farm in Amherst today. Along
with meeting Ben I got an exuberant greeting from Willy, his dog. I
caught a glimpse of something in the back of Ben's Jeep and figured that
the plywood ramp he was propping up there was for another but perhaps
aged hound that was going to amble out and join us. Nope. And as much
lettuce as I gave her she wouldn't come out to play. Good girl, Daisy.

Don Himsel
photo editor
The Telegraph
http://blogs.nashuatelegraph.com/on_assignment
(603) 594-6590

Bear necessities, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

It was nearly sun down as I recall, and I had been stalking it for days.
The beast kept reappearing in backyards, destroying bird feeders, and
thrilling homeowners who were used to seeing the usual songbirds out
their picture windows. And then it appeared - not at the feeders, but
right outside her kitchen door, in the screened porch!

On and off for most of the week I had been chasing scanner calls for
reports of a black bear making appearances all around the town of
Lunenburg, Mass. It was 1996, and I was the chief photographer at the
Sentinel & Enterprise newspaper in neighboring Fitchburg. Scanners were
our way of knowing what was going on in the world around us.

After a few days of "wild goose chases," listening to homeowners'
stories about the four-legged creature, I had still not seen the bear,
but I knew what it looked like and I know how they behave. I had
photographed bears while working in Minnesota years ago. They roamed the
dumps and shorelines of the lakes in northern part of the state, in
search of leftovers, or a dead fish.

I was sitting in the newspaper office around supper time when a scanner
call came across of a black bear near busy Route 13 in Lunenburg.
Traffic was keeping it from crossing the highway, and police were
dispatched to stop traffic. I drove as fast as I could, but it had
already crossed on it's own by the time I arrived.

Rather than follow the cruisers as they patrolled the wooded
neighborhood, I stopped at a home where it had appeared before. Bears
hunt for food in patterns, and often return for seconds at a productive
dining spot. The homeowners had bird feeders lining their backyard, and
this bear had already destroyed one of them. I got out of my car in
front of the house and waited. It was getting dark and I was supposed to
be home eating dinner with my family. But my adrenaline was pumping and
I had an inclination something was going to happen for me.

Back then I was shooting with a Nikon F4 film camera and an 80-200mm
f/2.8 zoom lens. I had two rolls of Fuji 800 in my pocket and one in the
camera. The scanner was quiet and I didn't think anybody was home. I
stood in the street awhile and then slowly walked toward the back yard
to check the feeders. I had about 45 minutes of usable light left.

Just as I rounded the back corner of the home, I thought I saw something
in the woods across the yard. Sure enough, it was the bear. But this
time it didn't seem interested in the feeders. It was heading toward the
house! I didn't have a cell phone back then, so I ran to the street and
flagged down a cruiser in front of a neighbor's home. Soon there were
neighbors and police standing in the side yard watching the bear.

It was sitting in the middle of the back yard as if waiting to be
served. What no one understood was what it smelled. There was a
clothesline running from the second floor porch window, to a tree. On
it, right above me, were several bags filled with suet balls. I watched
in amazement as the bear climber up on an upside-down row boat next to
the garage. It hopped onto the garage roof, walked across, and entered
an open screen window to the porch. After shooting up the first two
rolls, I reloaded my last one as the bear stayed hidden in the porch.

It was almost dark now, and I walked to the front door of the home to
see if anyone was there. To my surprise, an older woman answered the
door and I told her about the visitor she had inside. She had no idea
and quickly shut the front door. Oops! It locked behind her. Now the
bear was inside all by itself and she was in the yard with me. Quickly
returning to the back of the house, we watched as the bear looked out
her porch window. I motioned to the police to come to my side of the
house. My heart was racing as I photographed the bear reeling in the
clothesline. Onlookers clapped as the bear popped the suet balls into
its mouth, and disappeared back inside the porch. I was out of film and
it was dark.

I raced back to the paper and souped my film, while telling my story to
the newsroom staff that evening. We ran it with a story on the front of
our paper. I also sent a photo to the Associated Press, and the picture
ran in many newspapers across the country, as well as Newsweek. The bear
was famous now!

Unfortunately in this populated area, bears are not welcome. Just a week
later the beast appeared in downtown Fitchburg and made a scene. SWAT
teams surrounded it in front of a girls homeless shelter and fed it a
dozen jelly donuts before it got sick and was tranquilized.
Massachusetts wildlife officials transported it to the western part of
the state to find a new home.

-Bob Hammerstrom

arrangement, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

Taken today at Ikebana for an upcoming story/audio slideshow on japanese
flower arranging.

Don Himsel
photo editor

Precious moments, originally uploaded by Nashua Telegraph.

I stopped by St. John Neumann Church in Merrimack this morning in search
of a voter photo for Wednesday's local front in The Telegraph. If that
sounds exciting to you, please stop reading, put down whatever you are
doing, and proceed to the nearest photojournalism school. There is news
running in your blood!

I've been working full-time as a newspaper photographer for 22 years,
and have seen plenty of voting booths in my time. Believe me, they
haven't changed. At least not on the outside. The ballots are different
and the machines that count them improve with time. But the voting
process remains much the same.

To a veteran photojournalist, being sent to the polls is kind of like an
ice cream scooper dishing up one more cone for the summer crowd. You can
practically do it with your eyes closed! Picture this. A resident walks
into a polling place and picks up a piece of paper, hides inside a booth
to fill it out, then drops it in a box on their way out. Now if I was
working in Iraq, I would be toting body armor along with my Canon
cameras. People would be rejoicing as they left, happy to be alive and
free to vote. That's not the case here in the United States. People are
calm here, possibly thinking about where they are going to stop for
their next cup of java. It's a routine for us. We take too many things
for granted here in the U.S.A.

So what is there to look forward to as I enter the polls in search of a
fresh picture, never seen before, to grace the pages of our newspaper?
For me it's all about the people there, and their personalities. Facial
expressions and body language can tell a story much faster than words.

Voters were sparse this morning at the church, and it was very quiet
there. A half-dozen men congregated outside, holding signs and shaking
hands. But inside, the election workers didn't have to do much running
to keep up with today's crowd. I photographed Roni McCall dropping off
her ballot in the collection box, and looked for something else
out-of-the-ordinary. The photo of her will work fine, but I have taken
similar pictures before.

As I glanced around the room, I noticed a young girl kneeling underneath
the voting booths. The woman with her was inside. Four-year-old Layla
Terwilliger had found her perch for the next several minutes as the
voting took place. She saw my camera as I slowly walked over and knelt
down next to the booth. I set the camera on the floor. Rather than
interrupt the woman and spoil a precious moment, I began taking
pictures. Layla seemed curious, but not afraid of the man with the big
camera on the floor outside the booth. The frames blazed away for only a
few seconds before the woman exited the booth. I immediately identified
myself and asked for their names. After showing Layla a picture of
herself in the back of the camera, they dropped off the ballot and
headed out the door with smiles on their faces. I showed the picture in
the back of the camera to a pair of election workers nearby, who smiled
and agreed the precious moment was captured.

A few minutes later as I changed my camera settings outside to shoot the
sign holders, a car pulled up near me and the driver got out. "Oh no," I
thought as the woman walked toward me. My blood pressure started to
rise. Was she going to tell me not to use the pictures I had taken of
Layla? Absolutely not. She stopped to tell me I had made a young girl's
day. Layla seemed down before they went in to vote, and now she was
thrilled that a photographer had taken her picture!

So what do I look forward to when going out to routine assignments?
Meeting people, and maybe making their day!