Comments on: Sacramento Bee Has A Photo Blog

By: Waydralk

Waydralk — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:08:04 +0000

ehh. bookmarked..

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:06:48 +0000

St. Louis Post-Dispatch has Pictures. Columbia Tribune (Mo.) is a much smaller city, but has a superior photoblog ... not sure for how long, but I've been following for about a year now called Behind the Scene.

By: William Anthony

William Anthony — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:14:02 +0000

Seattle Times sports shooter Rod Mar has a great blog.

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/bestseatinthehouse

Candid, humble, funny and full of great behind-the-scenes back story.

And then there’s TIME’s misnamed “White House Photo of the Day” blog. (It’s not updated daily.) Lots of great imagery from two of my faves, Brooks Craft and Christopher Morris.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/whitehouse/photos

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:39:55 +0000

I’ve been following the big picture for several months now. I really love this type of photoblog. interesting stuff. i like that it offers a different view, literally, of current events.

By: M. Scott Brauer

M. Scott Brauer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:36:52 +0000

I’m glad to see the Big Picture’s idea taking hold at other newspapers. I hope that photographer’s aren’t getting pushed too hard to throw up anything and everything, though, at the expense of sanity and quality. I know a photographer at a small paper whose editors lust after page views; they *loved* it when he put up 40+ image page-by-page gallery of images from an after school program-type event. I’ve been in the same place, too, when someone at a newspaper I worked for said, “Why don’t you just throw a bunch of pictures up online.” A small, storytelling selection is fine, but soon enough it’s, “Why don’t you just throw the whole take online.” One of newspapers and magazines greatest roles is that of filter, mediator, and editor, i.e. someone to sort out all the chaff so the wheat can rise to the surface. Sadly, I’ve noticed Big Picture’s image counts slowly rising…we need more signal and less noise.

Another thing I’ve noticed with these new news picture sites is that they’re chock full of wire pictures. That’s all fine and dandy, I suppose, but when we start seeing freelancers and staffers getting into the mix a bit more, we’ll have something to really celebrate. Then show me something presenting photography with a stronger sense of authorship or editorial stylistic consistency (that’s probably not the right way to phrase it), and I’ll bring the beers.

The reception of these sites, also, is incredibly heartening. The Big Picture consistently gets a minimum of 40 or 50 comments per post, often more than 150. And I believe that’s with very little marketing support or tie-ins with the Boston Globe’s regular offerings. Considering that a small percentage of visitors to any site take the time to comment, that’s nothing to sneeze at and shows that the public is hungry for pictures.

By: Roger H.G.

Roger H.G. — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:26:53 +0000

I’ll get excited when they actually incorporate this into their overall design and aesthetic direction, rather than producing some half-arsed add-on.

By: chad

chad — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:25:26 +0000

well, they need to put teh images SOMEWHERE now that there isnt rom in teh newspapers… wanna bet they are still cutting back on staff photographers AND asking the remaining ones to shoot more for the site?

By: Tom Leininger

Tom Leininger — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:03:12 +0000

The Denver Post also has Captured. http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/

It looks like this is catching on.

By: timg

timg — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:55:20 +0000

Also of interest is the The Big Picture by the Boston Globe although it’s more than just staff photos.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/