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…
For nearly 20 years, I have been writing at PictureStoryteller.com. When I started the site around 2006, the purpose was pretty simple. I was teaching photography, particularly lighting and the business of photography, and I…
A visually stunning photograph that nobody can search for, organize, or locate is a photo that loses its utility the moment it is archived. In the digital age, a great image is only half the…
Over the past week, I did something I've been wanting to do for a while: I turned my camera toward two businesses I actually use — I Canita Cake and Gus' Barbershop — to show…
Stanley flying in a helicopter in 2014 above Blessed Trinity. Photo by Craig Carden In September 2014, I climbed into a helicopter to get aerial shots of Blessed Trinity High School for a recruiting campaign.…
