Andy Westlake

Wheelchair-bound Miles Ambridge's mother objected strenuously to his placement in his class photo, saying it makes him look "ostracized." Photo courtesy The Province. Sports broadcasters have long known that people identify with watching sports they themselves have played. It's not...

So if you've been reading this "vertical photography magazine" a long long time, you might remember a piece I wrote explaining why I'm not a photojournalist. I described coming across a perfect and very newsworthy picture and not being able...

I woke up in the middle of the night last night realizing I'd forgotten to put out the garbage. So I went to do that, and once outside I heard this gawd-awful roar coming from somewhere out to the West...

I shot an actual assignment yesterday...a dear family friend, Ned Schley, died a few months ago, and yesterday's memorial service at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center downtown drew a huge crowd. Grimmy (it's short for "Grandma Imy") asked me to...

Reviewed by John Camp TOP looks at quite a few books over the course of a year; this is a review of an unusual one called A Photojournalist's Field Guide, with the subtitle, "In the trenches with combat photographer Stacy...

Here's my latest pic, taken last night. I got six or eight good shots last night, but the older I get the more willing I am to let the "just good" ones fall away and concentrate on the ones that...

A nice short film about our friend Peter Turnley in Portugal, on a Portuguese website, Público; reader John Krill sent me the link. The interview must be very new—Peter's in Portugal right now, and I notice that one of the...

Photo by Rachel Elizabeth Seed This has got to stop! For the second time in just a few days, my systems went down and an entire post got zapped. This time it was my DSL, which went down for just...

[UPDATE—Sorry, this is another false alarm, unless Amazon will take your order for a reserved copy. I heard from Dewi and the reprint is (as of a few days ago) fixed for July, which means copies will be shipping in...

This week's column by Ctein Last column I told you what is wrong with Adobe's Brave New Photoshop, and we had a jolly good time bashing the Big A, didn't we! Now we've got that out of our system. (and...

I can't claim that this is entirely due to the notorious "TOP effect," but Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door is now the #1 Bestseller on Amazon in its category. Hey, we're at least helping.... Mike P.S. I'm trying not...

This might be the most interesting comment from the Editing Software post, which came in rather late in the day from Camilo Polymeris. Camilo points out that not having one program do everything would be a-feature-not-a-bug: I prefer small, light...

Damn—you know, you stop paying attention for five minutes, and the news just steamrolls right over you. Apparently Leica has released a new camera, and judging from the price it must be a pretty significant product. Yr. Hmbl. Ed. is,...

I didn't actually know this when I wrote yesterday's post about photo editing software—I'm generally more clueless than calculating—but it turns out that Adobe is about to release the newest edition of Lightroom, Lightroom 5. You can order it now,...

By Kenneth Tanaka What does the expression "a photographer's photographer" mean to you? To me it's a genre-independent designation far beyond simply a "good" or "prolific" photographer. To me it's someone who leverages a mastery of the photographic medium toward...

Home sweet home for me...Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) I've been thinking about this for the past few days now, and I've been struck by an idea that won't leave my head: Is it possible that good photo editing software just...

The saddest sight in my house. I am in theory as frightened of the idea of pain as the most timid little girl, but in reality I don't seem to be very much in touch with it. Pain, I mean....