Beauty of images...

Today I want to touch very interesting topic – photojournalism. I am sure that it’s really cool and exciting profession…
With photos we can create history. Images always attract people’s looks and minds… Photos and pictures give you really good chance to deep into the history and feel the culmination moment of each story. Every photo has it’s own influence… I want to say that images always bring into our life different kind of amusing lobules, sunny or gloomy…

Different emotions and feelings are rising in my soul when I look at really touching heart photos-manuscripts.
Without such visual things as pictures, movies, photos it will be very difficult for journalist to create a really strong article (story) for their audience… The core of your image lay on three things: timeliness, objectivity and narrativeness …
Every photojournalist has its’ own style and core. From their plumes of object glasses cameras the manuscripts are created… They make us feel and think about news, which we observed in different ways and perspectives.
Every journalist might listen his heart and mind in order to present even boring story in such fascinating manner that it will be interesting and understandable for both intellegences as well as for ordinary people…

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Professional photojournalist Mark M. Hancock said,

“A great journalist cares about people and an ideal world. A great journalist can approach a topic as vast as the universe and make it simple and interesting to both Einstein and the new immigrant, who is trying desperately to learn the language.”

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Think for a minute about future, your future… After graduation every one of us will go his own path. Some will be reporters, some will go to Public Relations sphere, but some I hope will go on the way of photojournalism.

Meet with this intrigue profession.

I found some characteristics that are important for everyone who want to try photojournalism field.

· A sense of curiosity
· Artistic aptitude
· Mechanical aptitude (related to International Technologies)
· High ethical standard
· Quick thinking and adaptability

If you have all this list of “terrible” points welcome into the ranks of photojournalists!!!

If you want to be professional in your sphere you always must develop skills. I like article about Careers in Photojournalism where I hope you will also find some useful and interesting information. Firstly I was glad to read that castle of knowledge which you can create at university and during your whole life will be some kind of platform for your future career (hobby)… In order to be a good photojournalist it’s important to be a creative person as well as a good reporter. The area of photography is very competitive and harsh, and you need to be prepared and advanced beforehand.

Career of photojournalism is merging of bright, black and white colors…

What do photojournalists think about this interesting profession?

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"Not every day is fun. Some are harder than anything you've ever done in your life, both physically and emotionally, but you are recording history," Peg Achterman, a television photojournalist for KING-TV in Seattle.

Steve Frischling, chief photographer at the Brattleboro Reformer in Vermont said, "This job comes with incredible highs, wonderful rewards, and some of the loneliest lows, and feelings of conflict."

Hey, what’s about NIT??? The impact of new technologies is huge for photojournalism. Due to updated equipments photojournalists can easily and rapidly create high-quality images by using advanced computers and mobile phones.
For the dessert I want to show you the image of Goran Tomasevic from Reuters who was given the 1st place in “Local Portrait and Personality” nomination (The best of Photojournalism 2006)…

A little girl who is an earthquake survivor...

“A little girl who is an earthquake survivor sits inside a tent at a camp in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad November 24, 2005. The head of the U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday the focus of Pakistani earthquake relief efforts was now to avert a tragedy over the imminent winter.”

Practice, practice and practice…
And you will achieve your star!!!