Trent Nelson | Photojournalist

Assignment #41 – Utah vs. Georgia Gymnastics

2012-02-08T15:54:40Z

Stephanie McAllister on vault as the University of Utah hosts Georgia at the Huntsman Center, college gymnastics Friday, February 3, 2012 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Stephanie McAllister on vault

Kassandra Lopez on bars

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Stephanie McAllister on beam

The meet came down to the final event. Here’s Stephanie McAllister after her 9.95 floor routine that helped seal the win:

MOMENTS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION

2012-02-08T15:02:52Z

Link: Peter Turnley

Misha Friedman’s Photographs of Tuberculosis

2012-02-08T15:01:27Z

Link: Lens

Misha Friedman’s photographs of tuberculosis are dark, black-and-white glimpses of passing lives. In many of the frames — shot in Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Russia — there is a wandering, ghostly presence.

Syria Under Siege: Photographs by Alessio Romenzi

2012-02-08T15:00:38Z

Link: LightBox

Photographer Alessio Romenzi has been among just such enemies of the Assad government: with fighters of the Free Syrian Army and with the people of Bab Amr, a rebellious district in the besieged city of Homs. On assignment for TIME, he took shelter with local families in a basement of Bab Amr. No one dared to step outside or even venture upstairs for fear of government shells crashing onto them. Bodies were dragged into homes from the street so they would not rot in the open. The dead littered the corridors. It was too dangerous to hold funerals. Romenzi counted 25 civilian fatalities in just two hours of bombardment in his immediate area. As he wrote in an email, “The word ‘safe’ is not in our dictionary these days.”

Magical Photos From a Small Town in Northern Russia

2012-02-07T13:04:37Z

Link: Lens

Evgenia Arbugaeva has warm memories of a very cold place.

She grew up in Tiksi, a port town on Siberia’s Arctic coast — to her, a magical realm of wonder and discovery where she reveled in the “little miracles” of her endless natural playground

Sony World Photography Awards shortlist unveiled

2012-02-02T16:33:38Z

Link: British Journal of Photography

The 2012 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards is just around the corner – coming to London in April. But, the World Photography Organisation has today announced its shortlisted photographers

The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager

2012-02-02T16:28:10Z

Link: Brain Pickings

so long as we have a monetization model of information that prioritizes the wrong stakeholders — advertisers over readers — we will always cater to the business interests of the former, not the intellectual interests of the latter

Assignment #32 – Child Identity Protection Press Conference

2012-02-01T15:02:00Z

You could not make this up…

A state legislator stood at a computer, its screen projected on the large screen for all to see. Everyone is watching and four TV cameras are rolling. Demonstrating a new identity theft prevention website, he filled out a web form by typing his home address, e-mail, his birthdate, and his drivers license number & expiration date for all to see. His private information was projected on a screen for everyone to see, including the four TV cameras rolling.

Just moments before, Jennifer Andrushko told us about how her three-year-old son Carter’s identity had been stolen…

Michael Carlebach’s Photos of a Goofy South Florida

2012-01-30T17:27:27Z

Link: Lens

Before Art Basel, Miami Beach and “Miami Vice,” there was another South Florida.

It was cheesier, scarier, goofier and much closer to the bone. Times Square with alligators. “Funny and depressing at the same time,” said Michael Carlebach, a photojournalist, photographic historian and educator.

Assignment #26 – Downwinders Vigil

2012-01-28T15:39:40Z

There were a lot of sad stories last night at the Day of Remembrance for Downwinders. Above is Ira Hinckley, remembering his father, David Hinckley, who died of cancer after working in Southern Utah for the Atomic Energy Commission. As the assignment read,

Nearly 1,000 nuclear weapons were detonated at the Nevada Test Site during the Cold War, and they sent clouds of radioactive fallout across the United States, exposing a generation of Americans to radiation.

I thought I was shooting RAW with the Fuji X100, but wasn’t. The frame below is a jpeg straight out of the camera with no adjustments:

I shoot everything in Velvia mode. Who would have thought that in 2012 you could shoot Velvia at 3200 ISO instead of 50? The frame is nearly perfect, aside from the easily correctable greenish cast that my Fuji shots seem to have.