The Power of Photography

[Clix Pix]

Although this is a promo produced for and by Nikon, it really applies much more universally to photography in general regardless of any particular brand...... A video well worth watching!

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[Steven-iphone]

I am out in No-Data land, but was able to hold the cell phone Cirque du Soleil style and view the video -- wonderful individuals. My take away from the video -- connections.

 

[kenoh]

I am out in No-Data land, but was able to hold the cell phone Cirque du Soleil style and view the video -- wonderful individuals. My take away from the video -- connections.

"Make a friend a day" - John H. White

 

[mollyc]

clearly i need to hurry my kids off to college so i can travel more....

 

[Clix Pix]

Those in the Washington, DC area and other places who read The Washington Post may recognize Carol Guzy's name, as her photography has often been featured in that paper. I especially enjoyed getting to know a little more about her!

 

[mollyc]

what happened to her family?

 

[mollyc]

also i’ve never been, but it looks like they were filming her at huntley meadows?

 

[Clix Pix]

She is divorced from Jonathan Utz, also a photographer, and I don't think she has children. Her parents are deceased, unsurprisingly, given her age, since she is now in her mid-60's.

Yes, when she is not traveling she lives in Arlington.

Huntley Meadows is an amazing wetlands -- well worth the excursion! It's been a few years now since I've been there but for wildlife photographers it can be sheer delight. And, yes, it does appear to be Huntley Meadows in some of the scenes in which she was filmed.

 

[mollyc]

She is divorced from Jonathan Utz, also a photographer, and I don't think she has children. Her parents are deceased, unsurprisingly, given her age, since she is now in the mid-60's.

Yes, when she is not traveling she lives in Arlington.

ohh. she just made mention that she had lost her entire family five years ago which seemed rather dramatic. more so than just a divorce.

 

[Clix Pix]

Losing one's parents can be rather traumatic, especially if both die within a short time of each other and if the deaths were not due to long-term illness but were unexpected..... Divorce can also be difficult as well, depending upon the situation between the couple involved.

Also, the kinds of places to which she has traveled at times of crisis and disaster, are usually filled with sad and horrific scenes which photographers recording cannot forget and sometimes they develop PTSD. Seeing loss and tragedy over and over again can be devastating.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Although this is a promo produced for and by Nikon, it really applies much more universally to photography in general regardless of any particular brand...... A video well worth watching!

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Thanks for sharing.

 

[kenoh]

clearly i need to hurry my kids off to college so i can travel more....

Everyone should travel more. We have access to a wider world than our ancestors before us and nothing widens your perspective and your tolerance of others more than being the odd one out somewhere new. I can highly recommend as a native English speaker, going somewhere where English is not the first language - get out of the comfort zone and see a different angle. Really stimulates that what makes us human - to think.

 

[mollyc]

Everyone should travel more. We have access to a wider world than our ancestors before us and nothing widens your perspective and your tolerance of others more than being the odd one out somewhere new. I can highly recommend as a native English speaker, going somewhere where English is not the first language - get out of the comfort zone and see a different angle. Really stimulates that what makes us human - to think.

We actually hope to take a bigger trip next summer. My daughter is currently a sophomore in high school and my son an 8th grader. We have only a few summers left with them to go on good adventures. I think we are going to screw the summer swim and see the world. Well, part of it, anyway.

 

[Clix Pix]

That is one thing I wish that my husband and I had done more: traveling. We did some, but there were so many other. places we could have seen and experienced when we had the opportunity.....

 

[TwoLaneHighway]

I needed this, this morning.

Anyone have a tissue?

 

[Apple fanboy]

We actually hope to take a bigger trip next summer. My daughter is currently a sophomore in high school and my son an 8th grader. We have only a few summers left with them to go on good adventures. I think we are going to screw the summer swim and see the world. Well, part of it, anyway.

Do it. Enjoy it while you can. Before you know it they will be off doing their own thing.

 

[Apple fanboy]

That is one thing I wish that my husband and I had done more: traveling. We did some, but there were so many other. places we could have seen and experienced when we had the opportunity.....

I’d love to travel more. Apart from the work issues, Mrs AFB won’t, so it’s either going alone or don’t go at all.

 

[Clix Pix]

ohh. she just made mention that she had lost her entire family five years ago which seemed rather dramatic. more so than just a divorce.

I spent a little time doing some research and it seems that Carol Guzy's father died when she was six years old, and she and her much older sister were raised by their then-single/widowed mother. Her mother and her sister died just over a year apart (mother in October 2013 and sister in December 2014). Each of them was affected by Alzheimer's. I can imagine that everything leading up to their situations must've been a very difficult time for everyone concerned. Her mother and her sister were her only family.

Also Carol mentions in one interview that she had a "huge breakdown" in the late 1990's....PTSD resulting from some of the things she had seen, photographed and experienced while away from home in different countries, different areas, doing her photojournalistic assignments. Also in 1998 is when she and her husband were divorced, and that, too, probably affected her significantly as well.

A link to one of the several articles I read:

Behind the Lens: Carol Guzy’s Pulitzer-Prize Winning Photography (Full-Screen Slideshow) - Washingtonian

US troops occupied Haiti to restore order after a military coup. Guzy was covering a pro-democracy march when a grade went off. "The mob was about to tear apart the man they thought had thrown the grenade," she says. "The...

www.washingtonian.com

 

[mollyc]

I spent a little time doing some research and it seems that Carol Guzy's father died when she was six years old, and she and her much older sister were raised by their then-single/widowed mother. Her mother and her sister died just over a year apart (mother in October 2013 and sister in December 2014). Each of them was affected by Alzheimer's. I can imagine that everything leading up to their situations must've been a very difficult time for everyone concerned.

oh. thank you for researching and sharing. that would be traumatic.

 

[Clix Pix]

The photos in the article that I just linked are stunning -- and I can only imagine how traumatic it would be to be in that situation photographing the awful things which occurred in the different places, such as Haiti.....

Carol Guzy has won four Pulitzer Prizes and it is not surprising that she also paid an emotional price for each and every one of them. In combination with the family situation, it must have been overwhelming at times.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

We’d love to travel more. For the last 9 years or so, we’ve had kids that were a bit too young to travel with (they were all car screamers when they were babies, and I’m talking non-stop hours of it), but we’re now to the point where that is no longer an obstacle. I even upgraded the family truckster this year with that intent, but it hasn’t panned out. We thought we were going to have to put our cat down a month ago due to poor health, and we didn’t want to leave her behind while she was doing poorly. Now she’s rebounded (for the 3rd time in her long life), so maybe we’ll make something happen this fall. We took a trip last year and the kids loved it. Some of the most lasting memories of my childhood were the family road trips, so I hope to give that to our kids as well.

 

[deep diver]

Spectacular. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Allyance]

Although this is a promo produced for and by Nikon, it really applies much more universally to photography in general regardless of any particular brand...... A video well worth watching!

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Utterly beautiful in both images and in feeling.

Next time I am out this way, I need to find those Elk.

 

[someoldguy]

Just as an aside to this , I think I've finally found something that's aged less gracefully than I have ...

Taken around noon today . I've known about this vessel for about 15 years , maybe a bit more . Every time I'm out in The Bay Area I go out to check it out ( and to try to see the Tule Elk in @Clix Pix 's video reference . ) When I first saw it , it was pretty intact , but has gone down quite a bit in the last 5-7 years since I've been out there .

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Just as an aside to this , I think I've finally found something that's aged less gracefully than I have ...

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Taken around noon today . I've known about this vessel for about 15 years , maybe a bit more . Every time I'm out in The Bay Area I go out to check it out ( and to try to see the Tule Elk in @Clix Pix 's video reference . ) When I first saw it , it was pretty intact , but has gone down quite a bit in the last 5-7 years since I've been out there .

This is probably what I’d end up doing if I had a boat.