I made a mistake today

Today was my first correction. I made a mistake by not taking the extra time to correctly identify both of the players in an image that ran on the front of the sports section today. It is my first infraction, hopefully there will not be any others that will follow this one for a great deal of time. Everyone at the paper was very nice about it, especially Dan, he knows how hard it is sometimes when numbers are folded in half and it is difficult to identify the players. Here is the picture that ran with the inaccurate caption.

Ethics and the questions of life

There really are not any questions of life in this post, I just thought it would make the post sound better. Instead ethics is the discussion, if you dont want to hear my rant on how important it is as a community of photographers then leave now.

Early this month a college student was asked to manipulate a photograph from a recent assigned event. His sky was not blue enough for the advisor, so the advisor said to him to change it. I applaud the student for standing up for his ethics and fighting the advisor on this matter. Journalism ethics are the most important corner stone that we have in our industry. Especially for photographers, when we are compared to paparazzi almost on a daily basis. It is important to hold on to something like ethics. Having the ability to say I would not do this because of a code that photojournalists follow is essential to the survival of trust with the public.

I know I have a strong sense of ethics, but the average reader does not, and probably will never question how or where we were able to capture an image. Jim Merithew's sportsshooter.com column said it best.

So good luck to whoever reads this thing. I hope you all find ethics to be a tool that photographers can use to the benefit of ourselves and the public.

Bigger pictures!

I just had a frustrating time with Bess trying to figure out how to make the pictures fit across the blog entry area. Thank god that is finished! I am excited for the new look and size of pictures. Look for more updates soon.

Basketball

I just shot a game in Laramie. Not the first one, but one that had a bunch of good pictures. I really enjoyed the game. It was very close for most of the game, but in the end, Wyoming couldn't finish against Brigham Young University. Poor guys.