Joe Flood

Schmap publishes a series of local city guides.  They found some of my pictures of DC and elsewhere on Flickr and used them (with my permission) in their local guides.  They just released Schmap Guides for the iPhone, basically iPhone optimized versions of their guides.
What was slick and considerate of them was that they emailed me [...]

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Here’s what interested me this week:
How to Shoot EventsI was an event photographer last night for Art-O-Sound at Artomatic.  (Pictures coming soon.)  This post had some good advice about taking photos without being a jerk.
Just a Govy
Getting government to adopt the social media tools that the rest of the world uses is really painful and [...]

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In my earlier post on Election 2008 and citizen expectations, I speculated that candidates, once they were elected, would continue to use web 2.0 tools to communicate with their supporters.
The Brits are one step ahead of us. Number 10 Downing Street, home to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, has its own Twitter feed. Even [...]

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A great feature that Flickr added recently was Flickr stats. With it, you can not only see how many views your pictures are getting but you can see how much traffic an individual picture is coming from - and where that traffic is coming from.
On Sunday, I went to the “Japan! Culture + Hyperculture” [...]

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Prostitutes openly wait for customers on the Gran Via.

A more tolerant attitude toward graffiti.

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Bocadilla jamon y cerveza.

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Yummy ham in Madrid.

Madrillenos on a very warm January day.

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Rose is the daughter of a couple friends of mine. She was in my photo “Rose Runs” that was in the DCist Exposed show and has appeared in the local paper a couple times.
And now a picture I took of her was used to illustrate an article on handmade correspondence. When you’re six, [...]

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I do love Flickr.  But I don’t like their prints, finding them to be really washed out and disappointing.  However, I like SmugMug’s prints but didn’t want to go to the trouble of downloading all my Flickr pics and then uploading them to SmugMug.
Enter SmuggLr, a  Firefox extension that promises:
Photo migration from flickr, ImageStation [...]

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One of my pictures of Reverend Billy was used in an Amy Goodman column on how Americans buy too much stuff.
The Reverend has an excellent documentary coming out this month called What Would Jesus Buy. Produced by Morgan Spurlock, I saw it earlier this year at SilverDocs and it’s excellent. I think people [...]

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