Haverhill, Mass is home to Ian Hartsoe, a 22 year old soon to be graduate of the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire with a degree in photography.

Ian prefers to work in film rather than digital and often shoots in black and white.

I've known Ian since back when he was afraid of the big bad wolf and didn't know what a camera was but today I'm sure Ian would want to snap a photo should he happen to run across a wolf on one of his many camping trips in the wilderness of Maine.

I was going to snag an example of Ian's work for you but was unable to, so why not check out IanHartsoe.com and look for yourself. Also, just minutes ago I got to look through many of Ian's photos that he has yet to upload to his website.

Canada Discovers North American Poet Laureate Billy Jones

Our visit with Discovery Channel Canada was both informative and enjoyable. I know I for one dug the hell out of riding around downtown Greensboro, stopping here and there to engage in some guerrilla filmmaking. It was a learning experience for this aspiring auteur... 

And I was able to get our own photographic record of what transpired. I winnowed my hundred or so photos down to these twelve, which I think tell the story quite nicely.

Thanks again to Lori Belanger, producer of the Daily Planet on Discovery Channel Canada and their fantastic cameraman, Ross MacIntosh.

 

Here's a tip: I found the picture here.

 

I've little doubt this guy is as happy as he can be.

Yeah, I know it's his job and all but our local Emmy Award winning blogger, Chris Weaver, has some great pics of the 2008 Presidential candidate. Now if we could only get his bosses to let him shoot Yellow Dog when she returns to campaign in Greensboro.

 My friend Beth is preparing to vacation in London, England soon so I thought I'd help her out by doing some research on what she might find there when to my surprise I discovered an entire community of little people who live, work and play alongside the normal sized people there. How this community has managed to avoid the main stream media for all there years can only be explained when you realize they're probably very hard to see.

Life is hard for London's little people. For example, a crack in the road you might drive over every day can be a major obstacle when you're only a few inches tall.

Learn more about the Little People of London... Well, you know how links work, click the red letters.

This post has been made possible by StreetPlanes, which sadly, aren't available in little people sizes-- yet.

Tunnel Or Bridge? Well?

Warning: It's graphic and may well rattle your senses. If this photograph doesn't cause you pain then put a gun to your head right now as you are of no value to the world. If you think this isn't your problem then you are the cause of the problem and should be shot dead as you are nothing. It's pornographic in that it displays a nude child in the most desperate of situations but there is no sex involved. It's child abuse but not in the way you think when you think child abuse-- it's worse than any child abuse you've ever seen. If you're having breakfast or your stomach is easily upset then I recommend you not view this picture. While I would think it office safe it is in no way safe to share with children.

Link via Nausher.com via Pickle05.

A lot of my readers are familiar with poet and novelist, Jo Ann Janoski, but it's been quite a while since I mentioned Jo Ann's husband, Ron and Janoski Studios.

Jo Ann and Ron live on a hill overlooking Three Rivers Stadium and downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and are the world's best provider of photographs of Pittsburgh. Ron has been photographing Pittsburgh since 1976.

Ron and Jo Ann offer prints of Pittsburgh and photography for magazines and media. Photographs are available online and at various retail outlets around Pittsburgh including the gift shop at Janoski's Farm and Greenhouse in Clinton, Pennsylvania.

I knew Vada's mother. But that was before Vada was born. Vada is a graduate of Guilford College and a mother who quickly grew tired of the portrait factory approach to photography and decided to go it on her own.

Vada is now the owner of Bostiva Fine Art Photography in Greensboro, NC. and also posts to Bostiva Fine Art Photography Blog.