This blog is over. I’m not done with bloging my life as a photojournalist. I’m just done with this one. Please adjust your bookmark and update you RSS feed. The new blog is over here.

Remember James Nachtwey? Here is his, giving a speech outlining his career, with some of is best - and graphic - images. Please watch.

Photojournalists need to be mobile. We have to file our pictures before the deadline, and sometime that mean filing on location. You have to bring your laptop and use an available Internet connection. Usually, you can use a Wi-fi  provided by the event you are covering, from an Internet café nearby, or by using an open and non-protected one (which is officially not legal).

But sometime, you just can’t. You have to file from a place where there is no Internet available around and you don’t have the time to find one. What do you do then?

I knew I would have to invest someday, and the time came for on last week’s election. I had to file from a restaurant where the ADQ from the Quebec City area where rallying during the evening. No Internet was available (at the end, there was an access, but it crashed during the night so…)

I went to see my friend Patrick at Telus. I bought a Treo 700p, so I could use it as a modem. No cable needed, it use bluetooth to communicate with the laptop. It worked like a charm. The communication was fast; a couple of MB of pictures was transferred in just a few of minutes.

And since then, I’m in love with my Treo. I can synchronize my calendar from my computer and have my contacts list everywhere I go. I use it to receive and send email. I listen to my MP3 collection. I can browse the Internet. I can even make phone call! So when I am in the bus, I can read my RSS feed while listening to my music.

Sweet!

Here it is: my new website (version française)

When you shoot for a newspaper, it’s almost instant gratification. Usually, you see your picture in the paper in the next day’s edition. But when you do a job for a magazine, it can take several months before you see your work printed. For instance, I took those pictures of Dr. Claude Fournier for the Medical Post on January 12, and they just hit the stands – front page.

I hate it when I bust my bandwidth like I did last week. The blog was unavailable for 4-5 days and it pisses me off big time!

I’ll move my blog pretty soon so it does not happen again. But before, I will unveil my new website. Soon. Like in a day or two. Stay tuned!

PocketWizards are great to fire remote flash, but they can be use to fire a remote camera too! Getty’s Donald Miralle show us how in a 3 part video.

The story of a disputed photo

This image was shot with a pre-release Mark III at 3200 ISO (1/1000 @ f2.8). Do you see any noise? Very impressive!

A friend of mine pointed me this one.

Here is a photo published in Le Journal de Québec, credited to Benois Gariepy (Staffer at this paper). Here is the same photo published in Le Soleil (the other daily in Quebec City), credited to Laetitia Deconinck (staffer at Le Soleil).

So... Who took the picture?