I’ve uploaded a series of pictures to my Buzznet account … stuff I’ve taken over the past couple of months but never got around to uploading.

• A photo of Otis that looked under exposed on my iPhone, but when I downloaded it, it’s actually pretty good. Man, he was a big guy.
• A blurry but fun photo of Billie with a group of Japanese business men we met at a tiny restaurant bar in Syracuse.
• Pachuco on the day we got him during the drive home from the animal shelter.
• Pachuco at Mendon Ponds Park (this picture is my current laptop wall paper). This picture from the same time is cute, too.
• Pachuco in our back yard with our spectatuclar rhodadendrin in the background.

A book: The Digital Photography Book

Did Robert Capa fake his famous Falling Soldier picture?The way I read this PBS.org article, it’s hard to believe he did.

This morning the photography world is abuzz with news of a recently discovered cache of Capa negatives from the Spanish Civil War. According to news report, the discovery could help answer the question.

The Capa photo isn’t the only famous war photo to come under scruitiny in later years. A Roger Fenton photo from the Crimean War is also an interesting study in discovering the historical accuracy of famous pictures.

Of course everybody knows (right?) that there were two flag raisings at Iwo Jima. One became an iconic image of World War II. The interesting thing is that there is little doubt that Joe Rosenthal was just in the right place at the right time, rather than being involved in any staging.