The Los Angeles MTA (Metro Transit Authority) has just launched some extremely edgy, hip, completely effective advertising spots. Done in black, white and silver with Terry Crews mime dancing, the black fedora (especially now and in Los Angeles)has an incredibly hard hitting impact.
Not sure to believe all the hype about D-SLRs? Want to go old school on a travel walkabout grabbing shots with a long focus or extreme wide angle lens? Or maybe you have your eye on some local exterior locations that cry out for a special lens and more light control and aperture mechanism customized settings than your smart camera will allow?
Sometimes as a photographer you are in the right place at the right time. You get a sense of history about a subject, something you know is news before you even snap the capture button. The quality of conveying a sense of history in a medium is its historicity, and many news and feature images have this quality.