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Ski jumpers from all over the world descended upon Brattleboro, Vt., once again for the annual Harris Hill Ski Jump, Saturday and Sunday, February 16 and 17, 2013.
USA’s Chris Lamb took first place in the weekend’s events followed by Japan’s Yuya Yamada.
Local skier Spencer Knickerbocker of Brattleboro also competed in the FIS Cup competition.
Behind the scenes:
I chose to use a variety of tools while covering this event. I shot with my Canon 40D
Hillarious!! I’m glad that this was captured and shared with the world.
so this happened
The 10th annual Collegiate A Cappella Concert
A benefit for the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, the 10th annual Collegiate a cappella concert at the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro, Vt., featured performances from the Amherst Zumbeyes, Dartmouth Aires, Smith Smiffenpoofs, Syracuse Mandarins, Tufts Amalgamates, Tufts Beelzebubs and Wesleyan Quasimodal on Saturday, February 2, 2013.
*The following playlist features a video from each of the seven groups.
First and Second grade students at Oak Grove School in Brattleboro, Vt., were interviewed by a film crew from NESN for their show Red Sox Small Talk, Wednesday, February 6, 2013.
The interviews will be shown during the Red Sox pre-game show on NESN during the regular season and will also be shown during the little league coverage.
Matthew Bentley-Toney and Avery Bennett sing “Dynamite” while being interviewed for NESN’s Red Sox Small Talk at the Oak Grove School in Brattleboro, Vt.
Shumlin visits Academy School.
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin got a tour of Academy School in West Brattleboro, Vt., Tuesday afternoon, while visiting the southern part of the state.
Accompanied by Vermont Education Secretary Armando Vilaseca, the Governor met with student reporters from the Red Clover Times, the school newspaper, and was given a tour of the school. During the tour the Governor met with students and answered their questions like “What it is like to be governor?” and “What does the governor eat?” (Kindergartners are cute)
After his time at the school the Governor met with Reformer Reporter Mike Faher at the Brattleboro Reformer office to talk about his recent childcare proposal.
As part of what he calls “a very ambitious education agenda,” Gov. Peter Shumlin wants to boost child-care subsidies for lower-income families. - Reported by Mike Faher for the Brattleboro Reformer, Feb 6, 2013 pg.1.
Photograph by Miquel Dewever-Plana—Agence VU
TodayWorld Press Photo announced the multimedia contest winning productions. Among the winners, ‘Alma, a Tale of Violence’ has won first prize for interactive documentary:
For five years, Alma belonged to one of the most violent gangs in Guatemala City. She has committed murder, battery, and brutality. Brutalized herself, she has been jailed many times.
With 18 murders a day, Guatemala is a country undermined by violence. Alma is typical of her generation, where youths grow up in a world in which laws and justice are flouted with impunity. Families mired in poverty, despair, and alcoholism destroy each other in gang warfare that has become an ordinary way of life – and death.
She was sentenced to death by her ‘homies’ the day she wanted to quit the gang. Yet she survived the bullets. Although she will never walk again, she is striving to rebuild her life.
For more information on World Press Photo, visit here. To see this work on LightBox, visit here.
(Authors and directors: Miquel Dewever-Plana and Isabelle Fougère. Producers: Alexandre Brachet and Margaux Missika. Photography and camera: Miquel Dewever-Plana. Text and interview: Isabelle Fougère. Drawings: Hugues Micol. Art direction: Sébastien Brothier. Music: Greg Corsaro. Editing: Lydia Decobert. Animation: Jérôme Gonçalvès. Technical director: Maxime Quintard. Flash developer: David Desprès)
After paying their fines and court costs from a November conviction for trespassing at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Vernon, Vt., members of the Shut It Down Affinity group gathered for an anti Vermont Yankee rally at the Wells Fountain in downtown Brattleboro, Wednesday. 1/30/13
“If there is a law that says you can’t shut that place down, we must ignore it,” Nestel told cheering supporters earlier at a rally at Windham Superior Court in Downtown Brattleboro. “You must trespass. You must shut it down.” - Reported by Mike Faher on page 1 in the Brattleboro Reformer. 1/31/13
After spending the past 6 years as the Executive Director of the Brattleboro Chamber of Commerce, 74 year old Jerry Goldberg will be retiring at the end of the year.
“I will not trade one minute of the past six years. I could not have written it any more perfectly,” Goldberg said during an interview in his office Tuesday. “Now it is time for me to move on, and let someone else try this.” (Reported by Howard Weiss-Tisman, 2013, Brattleboro Reformer, pg. 1.)
Behind the scenes:
Image 1. Goldberg is standing on the sidewalk on Main Street in Brattleboro, Vt. I dropped down the ambient exposure to darken the background just a little and keep the focus on Goldberg. I then used an off camera strobe
Image 2. Goldberg in his office. Lit by a off camera strobe
Image 3. Goldberg stand on the sidewalk in front of the Brooks House, an iconic building in Brattleboro, Vt. Shot using only natural light and converted to black and white in Lightroom
Kevin Regan shovels snow from the front of several local businesses in downtown Brattleboro, Vt., as well as donates his time to shovel in front of the Robert H. Gibson River Garden and the entrances to crosswalks across Main Street.
“I love the River Garden and I love Brattleboro,” Regan said when asked why he was out shoveling.
Regan, a homeless man in Brattleboro, finds odd jobs like shoveling to make a few dollars a day.
“Being a poor, homeless man you’ve got to do something,” says Regan.
In the news:
My iPhone photos have been featured today on The iPhoneography Daily News. Go have a look!
Sam Abell: 40 yrs of Life and Still Life
Sam Abell is one of the great photographers of our time. Working for over 40 years with National Geographic he has produced awe inspiring, iconic imagery from all over the world. I really look forward to getting my hands on this new book collection that he is putting out. -zps
Photo credit: South Side Docks, St. Johns
Newfoundland
Sam Abell / Courtesy Radius Books
This winter, as a testament to the longevity of that aesthetic ambiguity and quietude, Radius Books is publishing The Sam Abell Library: Life and Still Life, an encyclopedic collection of 16 volumes, four slipcases of four volumes grouped by thematic relation. The first set, the photography of places — Newfoundland, Hagi and Australia — features 140 color photographs, most of which have never been published. -Eugene Reznik
“Allez Cuisine!” Loosely translated it means “Go Cook” or “Start Cooking” and is the phrase that the host of Iron Chef uses to start the battles on the popular television show.
Pictured here, students from the Putney Central School have split into three teams that will compete in the Jr Iron Chef VT competition on Feb. 2, at the Champlain Valley Exposition Center in Essex.
On Thursday evening the three teams, The Miso Masters, The Rainbow Radishes and The Crazy Flapjacks, prepared their dishes at the Putney Central School kitchen and presented them at a tasting at the school to raise funds for their overnight trip to the competition.
The dishes that the teams prepared — Tofu Miso Soup, Brushcetta and Butternut Squash Pancakes with Apple Compote — are made with at least 5 local ingredients from a preselected list. The teams are coached by Kerri Harlow and Kristina Israel of the Putney Food Co-op, who have been sponsoring the Jr Iron Chef program for the past four years.
For more information, visit www.jrironchefvt.com.
A powerful image from photographer Khalil Hamra of the current protests in Egypt.
*After taking a second look at this image, it looks to me like there is some pretty heavy halos around the man and boy. It looks as if there was some pretty heavy burning or dodging happening here in Photoshop. It doesn’t seem to change the content but it does look as if it has been manipulated. Thoughts??
Here are some links to guidelines for photojournalistm ethics.
-Black Star photojournalism ethics ebook
-Blog post from the Press Democrat
Caption: Jan. 25, 2013
An Egyptian protester evacuates an injured boy during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo. Two years after Egypt’s revolution began, the country’s schism was on display as the mainly liberal and secular opposition held rallies, saying the goals of the pro-democracy uprising have not been met and denouncing Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
Firefighters are back on the scene of a large mulch pile fire at the Vermont Mulch Company in Vernon, Vt., this morning. 1/25/13
*Seen this morning on Twitter here:
U/D Vernon Vt. *Mulch Pile Fire* 1367 Fort Bridgeman Rd. Chesterfield Tower and Hinsdale Hose Truck special call to scene.
— SWNH Fire Mutual Aid (@Firemutualaid) January 25, 2013
Earlier this week, emergency responders spent 13 hours working a fire at the same location.
“It’s a one-time event,” Jeff Morse, Cersosimo general council, said about the fire on Wednesday.
Today, firefighters are working in near zero degree temperatures at the scene at 1367 Fort Bridgman Road, having to drill through the ice to set up a water supply.
View the story in today’s Reformer by Reporter Mike Faher here: http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_22446774/company-says-vernon-fire-lsquo-one-time-event
*Here is a video by Joe Bushey of the scene.
Sonya Vargas, center, has been battling cancer for the past couple of years and on Saturday, family and friends are hosting an event to help raise funds to meet some of the costs incurred by her illness. A potluck dinner will be hosted by the Agape Church, 30 Canal Street, Brattleboro, from 4 to 8 p.m. If you would like to help out, bring some food, or make a financial donation, call Carol McManus at 802-380-0157. McManus is also looking for a DJ to volunteer his or her services for the event.
From left, Garyl Smith, Danaysa Vargas, Manny Vargas, Sonya Vargas, Maria Vargas, Hector Vargas, Angela Burton and Samuel Burton.
A fire destroyed a home at 149 Covey Rd., in Brattleboro late Wednesday night.
Firefighters from Brattleboro, Guilford, Putney, Hinsdale, N.H., Dummerston, Chesterfield, N.H., and Keene, N.H., were on the scene as well as Rescue Inc, Brattleboro Police and the Brattleboro Public Works.
There were no injuries to the occupants of the home but the family dog died in the fire.
The cause of the fire is currently under investigation but is not considered suspicous.
(Zachary P. Stephens/Brattleboro Reformer)
