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Good use of contrast to highlight a subject
Mar. 19, 2008 – U.S. Navy chaplain John Hoak conducts a Roman Catholic Mass aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) March 19, 2008. Ronald Reagan and embarked Carrier Air Wing 14 are conducting carrier qualifications while under way in the Pacific Ocean. DoD photo [...]

A word from our sponsor (at least the agency I work for):
Do you have a photo of a Soldier interacting with the environment? Endangered species management on your installation? Recycling? Nature on post?
We’re looking for 15 photos for the very first U.S. Army environmental calendar, to be published in September. Send anything — we’ll consider [...]

Tech. Sgt. Greer caught a moment of communication here that makes the photo work. Focus is used well here. One could question the amount of black in the photo — the burkah (sp?) looks almost like an ink blot. But it also serves to focus the eye on and frame Capt. Brown.
Mar. 17, 2008 [...]

Poynter just posted its state of the news media report for 2008. It’s becoming an essential tool. This is essentially a test post.

Here’s the new home of the Military Editors bl*g. Some installations (including my own) have issues with accessing the former host of this site.
Your Faithful Servant, Neal S.

Another use of the wide angle lens to induce vertigo, and another demonstration of why it rocks to be a photographer for the military. There aren’t too many other jobs where you can hang shoot this kind of action. Now that we’re done gloating (not that there’s anything wrong with pictures of flowers and butterflies), [...]