What the stock photography giant's planned bankruptcy reveals about who creates value, who controls pricing, and who bears the risk. On October 12, 2026, Getty Images announced plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection…
Every fall I notice how many of my friends love dressing up for Halloween. They spend hours sewing, doing makeup, building props, and developing a character, and then the night ends and the only record…
This week, the Pentagon said that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, will be livestreamed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a conservative TV outlet the execution would be “public,” and…
Saturday night, Dorie and I walked into the Atlanta Marriott Marquis as ISB Atlanta guests, and I did something I rarely get to do at one of their galas: I put the camera down and…
I’ve been scanning old slide transparencies from my film days. It’s slow work: load the slide, scan, clean it up, repeat. I expected a chore. What I didn’t expect was how often I’d stop and…
Up front: I’m not an AI skeptic. I’ve been surprised, more than once, by what this software can do. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been testing tools like Excire Foto and Aftershoot, along with…
ABWE missionaries Steve Frerichs, Stephanie Pace, and Andy Pace talk with photographer Stanley Leary outside a home in Peru. Leary was there with Jeff Raymond to plan the Storytellers Abroad Workshop. Photo by: Jeff Raymond…
I have been making pictures and telling stories for more than forty years, and I have had to reinvent how I do it more than once. Recently I listened to a podcast that gave a…
I recently listened to Alan Schaller on the Pangolin Podcast. He's a London street photographer who shoots high-contrast black-and-white on a Leica Monochrome. On paper, we have little in common: he isolates a lone figure…
The assignment A church's leadership asked its communications team to create videos to increase engagement and giving. I was asked to help the team think it through. That sounds like a clear assignment. It isn't.…
Every assignment arrives with a picture already attached. An editor sends a shot list. A nonprofit asks for “a hopeful image of a mother and child.” A pitch gets written before anyone has visited the…
I updated my new 16" MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip to Mac OS 27 and then Mac OS 27.0.1. The computer started acting funny when I restarted the MacBook Pro, and I typed…
