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Nice Shot! How a Photographer Captured a Once-in-a-Lifetime Image of Lightning - PROOF

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On Proof: Why it Took Me Eight Years to Photograph My Own Backyard

We've all had projects that get stalled or stuck. And oftentimes things that are put on the backburner are eventually just forgotten. When Vincent J. Musi was assigned to photograph South Carolina's ACE Basin, which is less than 50 miles from his home, the project kept getting delayed because of more pressing assignments. He and Elizabeth Krist, his photo editor at National Geographic, corresponded over the years, always touching base about the story. Should it be cut? Would it ever be finished? Thankfully, eight years after he started, Musi took the last shot for the story, "Lowcountry Legacy," which was published in the November issue of National Geographic magazine.

You can read Musi and Krist's hilarious email correspondence about this photographic journey back on Proof.

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi

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I’ve never been to Yosemite National Park—I haven’t hiked to Half Dome or felt the spray of Bridalveil Fall—yet its views are familiar to me. For that . . . 

I wrote this post about Carleton Watkins's 19th century glass plate collodion images that ultimately helped to preserve Yosemite! The wet-plate process has interested me since I started following Sally Mann's work. For now, I'll stick with instagram and just write about the labor intensive processes of others. I do, however, need to visit Yosemite. 

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“It’s called Ishurdi. It means ‘where God stays,’” Sarker Protick says as he tells me about the district in Bangladesh where he’s been photographing his latest

I love rivers, and it was a joy to come across this gifted river-lover/photographer, Sarker Protick, interview him about his work along the Padma River, and feature his series on Proof. His approach is deliberate and unique. It definitely makes me think. 

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Working on this blog post about Q. Sakamaki's IPhone photography really opened up my perspective to Instagram as a tool for exploration. 

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Most of us long for spring to settle in—to stop its flirtation and thaw the ground, green the trees, and lengthen the days. This is not the case for 8 y

I'm a huge fan of Nordic culture and all things water-related. So of course I loved Daniel Hjorth's portraits the moment I saw them last fall in the winners' gallery for CPOY. Here's a post I wrote about the images today for #natgeoproof