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Baltimore News: Brandon Woody, ‘3 Blind Mice,’ The Great Migration

An afternoon with trumpeter Brandon Woody
by Lawrence Burney
Posted November 28 in The Baltimore Banner

Excerpt: In the course of an extreme, to start with-of-the-12 months cold front in mid-November, Brandon Woody is soaking up every single ounce of warmth in his Southwest Baltimore residing place. He’s in a white T-shirt, sweats and black Crocs lounging with his homie, musician Briley Harris, and Woody’s pet, Marley, but confesses that he ought to be investing this idle time working at his craft.

You may possibly or may well not have witnessed Woody around town on festival stages, on a Calvin Klein billboard shot by SHAN Wallace or entertaining a wine glass-gripping crowd at the Eubie Blake’s courtyard. That’s for the reason that over the earlier few of decades, the 24-calendar year-old trumpeter has built some sizeable strides in his vocation.

In February, he was booked to present the new music

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Great Reads in Photography: August 22, 2021

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!

Photos from the Fall of Kabul to The Taliban – BuzzFeed

Evacuations Continue in Afghanistan – in Pictures – The Guardian

A Photographer in Afghanistan on the Eve of Collapse — Politico

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Strolling Through Paris with Henri Cartier-Bresson — Blind

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Behind Gare Saint-Lazare, Place de l’Europe, Paris, France, 1932. 1973 gelatin silver print © Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation / Magnum Photos. Photo courtesy Exhibition Henri Cartier-Bresson, Le Grand Jeu at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, co-organized with Pinault Collection-Palazzo Grassi, in collaboration with the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Henri Cartier-Bresson never liked the term “decisive moment” attached to his work. Google “decisive moment” and of the six million hits, the first is one on

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Check out this great rationalization of how photographic movie is effective

It is straightforward to chat about film as if it is magic. Quite a few analog shooters will talk at duration about how the medium alone offers images an intangible sense of curiosity and marvel. I’m responsible of it myself. But, in reality, movie is the solution of really hard science. Generating movie requires meticulous math and specific chemistry used on a substantial scale. It is a really outstanding scientific feat. While quite a few photographers could very easily decide on up and shoot a roll of film, knowledge how it truly functions is a different story. This 24-moment movie from YouTube channel Smarter Every single Day does an exceptional job diving into the chemical mechanisms that go into capturing photographs.

Comprehension the basic principles

Movie, as we know it, relies on light-sensitive silver suspended in an emulsion built with gelatin. Light hits that silver to create a latent image,

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