Police Chief JAMES W. CONROY and Fire Chief PABEL TROCHE stand during the presentation of the colors at Roswell’s 9/11 Commemorative Ceremony at City Hall, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. The annual service honored the victims…
If you're deciding who to hire for your next shoot, here's the short version: I use AI extensively to work faster and deliver a more polished product — but I don't let it change the…
For years I assumed my camera would be the gear that aged out first. New sensors, faster autofocus, better low-light performance — surely that's where the pressure to upgrade would come from. It turns out…
For years, I've followed a simple rule: always have two MacBook Pros. One is my primary workhorse, the other sits ready as backup. It's the same instinct that leads me to carry two camera bodies…
Today is World Photography Day — the 35th anniversary of a celebration that started in 1991 with a few hundred photographers sharing images online. This year’s theme is simple: Home. Everyone will post a pretty picture…
Today, my friend Chris Garner, who owns TPS Photography in Morganton, NC, found one of his images posted on social media — stolen, screenshotted, run through an AI watermark remover, and reposted looking dark, blurry,…
I originally wrote about the questions I ask before doing a story back in 2016. A lot has changed since then. Cameras have become smarter. Phones have become incredibly capable cameras. Video has become an…
A friend recently shared a video from Simon d’Entremont, a nature and wildlife photographer, with the message: ” Every photographer should watch this. Simon had just come back from three weeks in Botswana, and the…
Two encounters with a man who shaped a university and a peninsula I learned this week that Ambassador James T. Laney, President Emeritus of Emory University, passed away at the age of 98. Over the…
Seven letters. All caps. Handwritten on a piece of yellow construction paper and taped above a locker room door with athletic tape, crooked on purpose. That's the "Believe" sign from Ted Lasso — one of…
ROSWELL, Ga. — A 53-foot tractor-trailer turned traveling museum parked at Blessed Trinity High School on Aug. 5, giving visitors an immersive look at poverty in America and the people working to address it. The…
I have a folder on my hard drive I only half-jokingly call the graveyard. It's full of stories I love — a wildlife photographer tracking recovery species through North Atlanta neighborhoods. This hairstylist has turned…
