By Jim Hagarty
2016
Journalists use a variety of tools to tell their stories.
One useful tool is the camera.
News photographers are a bit of a breed apart. They are consumed with not just depicting scenes, but with telling stories with their photos. And as we know, a picture says a thousand words.
I took photos for many years for newspapers and while I was not an accomplished photographer, I took a few pictures I am proud of to this day. A skill I picked up was the ability to anticipate a shot. I would say that is the major difference in a news photographer and any other kind – portrait, landscape, plant, animal, etc. News and feature photos are composed, almost as though the journalist is writing a story but using megapixels to do it.
My daughter Sarah left home almost three weeks ago to attend university. I took a few posed photos before we got in the car to leave but I knew she would wave goodbye to her doggie Toby as she walked by the window, and so I snapped it.
I am glad to have it.
