Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be face to face with an elephant?

One of more interesting parts of my job as a photojournalist involves sharing my experiences and wisdom of photography with kids.

This is way beyond a parent’s nightmare. You are at the train station and your child’s stroller rolls off the ramp right in front of a commuter train.

I found these amazing images in the “Visions of Earth” gallery on the National Geographic web site. Take a look.
-Bob Hammerstrom

I enjoy judging photo contests, especially if they involve photojournalism. Yesterday, our photo staff at The Telegraph in Nashua, N.H., judged the Vermont Press Association’s annual photo contest.

Usually nurses ask to take your temperature, blood pressure, or pulse. But, today one took my photo…

I drive my 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt everyday, but I can’t remember the last time I washed it. Nathan Parkhurst probably can’t remember the last day he didn’t wash his customized Mustang. There’s more wax on his fenders than there is in all of my wife’s Yankee Candles!

I see no humor in photographing car accidents, except for the bumper sticker I spotted today on the back of this old Ford pickup truck, which was crushed like an accordion when it struck the side of a dump truck on a city street in Hudson, New Hampshire this morning.

I remember being at my desk here in the newsroom when I first started working for The Telegraph in 1989.  The phone rang and the gruff voice on the other end of the line said he “had a horse that eats rocks” and that I should come and take a photo.  He had me for [...]

“I am the queen of the castle.” Those were some of the words sung by three-year-old Isabel Gerstein of Nashua, N.H., while she twirled and danced in front of a large wall mirror outside her bedroom.