This is a beautiful picture! Kudos to the photographer

[kpete]

Capturing the moment. Freedom’s Warriors.

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=XDRTEJtB35b00sAHorQ25A

[demmiblue]

1. Nice!

[irisblue]

2. That is from Speaker Pelosi Instagram page.

Would someone please bring here the image of President Zelenskyy being given an American flag?
I cannot do it on my phone.

[kpete]

6. Here you go

?w=1280&h=720&crop=1
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gifted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky an encased American flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol during his visit on Wednesday.

After Zelensky addressed members of Congress with a passionate speech, Pelosi shook his hand and presented the U.S. flag inside a special triangular case.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3784412-pelosi-gifts-zelensky-us-flag-that-flew-above-capitol/

[irisblue]

8. Thank you.

[imaginary girl]

15. Great pic...love how it looks like a glass gavel! Nt

[robleb]

3. STUNNING!

both the photo and the event! God Bless America. God Bless The Ukraine!

[Diamond_Dog]

4. OUTSTANDING photo!

Wow!

[Walleye]

5. I am proud to be an American woman looking at this picture

[NJCher]

7. I thought the same

Plus notice the juxtapositioning. There are stars in the triangle where Zelenskyy appears in reflection.

There are stars over Nancy and Kamala.

for the photographer.

[Walleye]

9. Being a news photographer myself I really appreciate this, would love to know who shot it

[NJCher]

10. news photographers

very cool, Walleye. Sometime you should put together some of your favorite photos from work and post them!

Dog knows I sure post my garden stuff around enough.

[Walleye]

13. I have some it on my computer can't figure out how to transfer it.

A lot of it now is in the newspaper archives. I was never very good about saving my work, I was always moving on to the next day. Working for the only large daily newspaper in Delaware, I covered Joe Biden for quite a while, Senator and Vice President. Got to know him and his facial expressions and body language. Actually I decided to join DU when he announced his run because, now that I’m retired I can show my political leanings. And I knew Joe Biden to be a good and honest man. Here’s a few examples I could find

[A HERETIC I AM]

23. What do you mean?

I have some it on my computer can't figure out how to transfer it.

Do you mean you don't know how to save your photos to a photo sharing platform?

[Walleye]

29. No I have an old laptop, now I do everything on my phone and I can't figure out how to move things

From the laptop to the phone because it is an old laptop isn’t hooked Internet. And it isn’t an apple. I could probably work something out if I wasn’t so lazy

[A HERETIC I AM]

31. LOL...OK

I TOTALLY GET THE LAZY BIT! Don't bust your own chops. When you want to do it bad enough, you'll find the time.



You just need a thumb drive, that's all. Just make sure you get one with enough capacity for all the images.


On edit to add this;

Don't let it go too long if there are images you really want to recover. I don't want to tell you something you already know, but I've lost some photos over the years because I just didn't do what I should have done in a timely fashion.

[Walleye]

32. Thumb drive is a good idea, thanks. I will get on it

[Hermit-The-Prog]

52. You can get a card reader for an iphone. Save from laptop to SD card; read it on the iPhone.

[NJCher]

43. pics

The first one shows something I always enjoying seeing at a protest: personal creativity. In this case, the protester is quite a good artist! Note that she autographed her sign, which shows that she took pride in her portrayal of Trayvon. Love how this photo captures the commitment to the cause.

It brings back sad memories.

The second one tears one's heart out.

What an action shot on the third! It has zigzag action which contrasts with the straight horizontal lines on the field.

Thanks for posting; I enjoyed seeing your work!

[calimary]

22. Not a news photographer myself, but I worked with the FINEST.

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I had the honor van of working in the AP LA bureau with a gent named Nick Ut.

Remember that gut-wrenching Vietnam War shot of the little girl running screaming down the road toward the camera? She had to be five or six. She was naked. She was screaming in agony cuz she’d just been napalmed. Nick Ut was the guy who took that shot. He later spoke of the arguments back at the Saigon bureau over that photo. Should they run it? She was naked, after all. But the decision was made to run it because of the riveting way it spoke of the horrors of war on the innocent victims and non-combatants. Nick Ut won a Pulitzer Prize for that shot.

I remember being especially struck by that, one particular day, when I was covering Cybill Shepherd getting her star in Hollywood Walk of Fame. There we were, behind the red velvet ropes with the rest of the press, and I noticed the guy crouched down right in front of me, on the sidewalk, getting shots of the event from that angle. It just tripped me out. THAT’S THE GUY. THAT’S the guy who shot THAT photo of that screaming little napalmed girl and won a freakin’ Pulitzer, and yet here he was in the scrum with the rest of us entertainment reporters, right there in front of me, getting those shots of Cybill freakin’ Shepherd getting her star on the Walk of Fame. The sublime and the inane, or something like that.

Btw, that wasn’t the only Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer I had the honor of working alongside. Reed Saxon was another one. HE’S the guy who took that famous photo of then-candidate Bill Clinton playing the saxophone on the Arsenio Hall Show, with Arsenio grinning and pointing proudly at the scene. That shot was part of a “Campaign 1992” photo package that also won a Pulitzer Prize. And later on, he’d probably be out photographing some multi-car pileup on the Hollywood Freeway.

Stuff like that just blew my mind.

[Walleye]

30. Yes, news photography is a roller coaster of emotions

I remember when a photographer I was acquainted with from the Philadelphia Inquirer won the Pulitzer I saw him the next day at the boring media day of the 76ers. Once I got to go on a dangerous and exhilarating ride on the back of Robbie Knievel’s bike. Five minutes later I had to go on an interview with a mother whose son had been killed by a stray bullet the night before. His blood was still on her pajamas. Parents of a murdered child is always the most wrenching of interviews. I certainly know who Nick Ut was and that picture had a very strong effect on me. I had a very good friend who worked at the LA Times as a copy editor in the 90s. She remembers being escorted home one night during the Rodney King riots.

[calimary]

57. OMG - the Rodney King riots! I was about 42 months pregnant then.

I was HUGE - as-big-as-a-building pregnant, and maternity leave was a few days away. My husband would not let me go into work that day. Said I could phone it in from home. The A.P. Bureau was in downtown L.A., mere blocks from the violence, so he was more worried about me than I’d ever seen before. You could smell the burning of the fires that had been set.

I got in trouble for not going in. But since I could barely walk by then, I appreciated being able to stay home, and safe. I got my work done and phoned in, and besides, what were they gonna do? Fire a pregnant woman who still managed to get her work done? How would that have looked? And the union wouldn’t have been too happy, even as toothless as it was by then.

[The Jungle 1]

36. Yea that photo is burned into my brain.

I was in high school. Good chance I was headed to Vietnam. I remember thinking that could be one of my sisters.

[electric_blue68]

39. Wow!

[calimary]

49. That's what I said to myself, pretty much every day, going into the newsroom and over

to where the broadcast booth was, located at one end of the bureau, next to Photos. I'd see the photo guys coming back in, every time, from some assignment, and they had to walk right past the studio door (which had a window in it). Couldn't believe I had gotten there. And for all the literally huge national and international impact the L.A. bureau had - what with the hometown news coverage (Hollywood) and all that it generated, what you really had in that big newsroom was a room full of "mild-mannered Clark Kents." And there was one guy, Bob Thomas, who was so prominent and distinguished in L.A. news coverage that he had his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was like the Pope of Entertainment Coverage by the time I got there to handle that beat for the radio network. He was THE guy. And he had been, for the A.P. for years. Some people spoke of him with hushed tones.

He was the guy who phoned in the first report of Bobby Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel, the night Kennedy had won the California primary.

[electric_blue68]

50. How Interesting, and to catch them returning from an assignment...

I like that.... "mild mannered Clark Kents".

Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, not usual for a news photographer.

Omg, phoning in the first report on RFK's assassination....
no words.


(While totally not the same as I temped in the office section of a fabric company I had to pass by at times a a open door studio space where the fabrics designers were painting the actual designs on probably illustration board. I'd go in and watch them for a few minutes.)

[NJCher]

51. So very interesting

You really got to meet some “greats” during your career.

What you said about Ut and the Cybill Shepherd shoot is food for thought. I guess in that business, you are only as good as your last shot.

[calimary]

55. Yep. You're only as good as your last fill-in-the-blank-here.

Last shot. Last story. Short-term memory rules. The late great Tom Snyder’s version was “you’re only as good as your last show.”

Sometimes, there were people in management who understood this better. Shit - there was an outtakes “reel” that circulated (actually a cassette tape) that included part of an aircheck of a gent named Robert McCormick (if memory serves -it’s been a few decades…) where he was CLEARLY drunk. Holy Cow! Any of us who listened to it wound up with mouths agape! How did this guy go on the air sounding like that? On network radio? Holy fuck!

HOW, you ask? Evidently his sources all over Washington DC, cultivated over years, were so valuable that nobody ever considered firing him (or “retiring” him, so to speak).

Shit - I learned more about human nature and motivations in those jobs than I could ever have imagined. Still lots of practical-application value, to this very day.

[rubbersole]

11. I'm proud to be an American man that loves and respects women looking at this picture.

[Walleye]

12. Absolutely thank you very much. Very much appreciated, you just don't know

When we get support from men, it just brings tears of gratitude to my eyes

[rubbersole]

37. The top 7 countries with their covid response/results were all headed by women.

Our country would have been up there if Hillary had been our President. Thanks a lot putin.

[Walleye]

40. I know I have thought the same thing

[rubbersole]

38. Merry Christmas Miss Walleye!

[llmart]

53. +1

That was my first emotion when I watched the speech. As a woman who's been in the trenches since the 60's, fighting for women's rights, I got goosebumps seeing this. When his speech was over and they each thanked him and interacted with him all I could think of was how their maternal instincts just kicked in and how sincere their interactions seemed. So unlike some stiff, obligatory handshake. It shows that women can be tough and soft at the same time.

I only wish Hillary could have been there also.

[Wounded Bear]

14. K & R...nt

[myohmy2]

16. +1...

...

[3catwoman3]

17. All the better for for not being posed.

A meaningful image indeed.

[Ferrets are Cool]

18. As a professional photographer who has a degree in photojournalism

I can assure you that this is not easy to capture. One must be very astute and accomplished to achieve images of this magnitude.

[Uncle Joe]

19. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread kpete

[calimary]

20. Wow!!! GREAT shot!

The Artist’s Eye - at work.

[JohnnyRingo]

21. I always wondered how real photographers do it.

I'm just a picture taker. If I indeed had the skillful eye to line up that shot, just as I raised the Nikon, Zelenski would move out of frame or Pelosi would stand to applaud and the moment is gone forever.

[electric_blue68]

41. Besides compositional skills, they hone a stronger sense of timing...

especially the more they do it. The more they watch people the more they "get" how people move - the better to anticipate actions.


I probably could have become a very good to maybe excellent Rock Concert photographer (back in the film days) because I began to develop those skills - but I really didn't want to go and photograph a lot of bands I didn't like to make a partial, or full living out of it.

But I often had a lot of fun!

[JohnnyRingo]

44. On Facebook I follow Henry Diltz

He's retired now, but he was the eye behind the camera that took iconic rock pix of my youth. He was the one who took the CSNY cover photo of them sitting on an old couch on the porch. Also the Morrison Hotel album where the Doors are sitting in a window of the hotel.

Many of Joni Mitchel, Mama Cass, and he took the mother and son pic of Neil Young with his mother in the liner notes of his brand new CD "World Record", so he's still being published.

He continuously posts proofs that have never been seen on his page.

https://www.facebook.com/henrydiltzphoto

[electric_blue68]

46. 👍 C,S,N &Y. Blondie. Micki D.

[Prairie_Seagull]

24. Beeeeutiful.

[Demovictory9]

25. Nice photo

[maveric]

26. Pulitzer worthy.

Beautiful

[Upthevibe]

27. Kick. N/T

[bpj62]

28. High School classmate

A high school classmate of mine in a photographer for Getty Images and he is assigned to the Capitol. He took multiple pictures yesterday but those two were not his. My friend was one of the photo journalists who received the Pulitzer Prize for his photos from Janary 6th.

[Cha]

33. Perfectly Brillian! TY! nt

[CousinIT]

34. Grayson Kisker was the photographer...

Deputy Digital Director/Videographer for Speaker Pelosi

Link to tweet

[lpbk2713]

35. Madam Speaker looks good in blue.

[electric_blue68]

42. Wow, that's a Lovely Photo! Great "catch"/composition, beautiful ...

surprise w Pres Zeenskyy's reflection in the flag case!

And look how ? satiny the red strips of the flag look, instead of a flat red.

[uponit7771]

45. K&R,

[Martin Eden]

47. A Picture for Posterity

[Laura PourMeADrink]

48. Hmmmmm

[Proud to be Woke]

54. Awe inspiring

There was an earlier thread about what things would be like if Trump had managed a successful re-election. This photo and the other one with the Ukrainian president receiving an American flag, standing next to Pelosi and Harris, would simply not have been possible. Ukraine would not have had any American support and would likely have fallen, so its president would not be addressing Congress. Harris would not be Vice President. And if the insurrection/coup attempt had been the reason Trump was still in office, Pelosi would likely be dead. So, this is one of my favorite photos of 2022.

[Niagara]

56. I love the blue pantsuits!