I hope I am not alone among bloggers who have been through something like this in earlier days: we could contact, credit, probably not pay, but at least we would know who took the picture (or, often enough, the video) if it had been posted online with its IPTC metadata intact!

I’ve noticed downloads of my own pictures, more peaceful, carry at least my name (and a copyright notice).

Minor nit, isn’t it?

Wars produce an immense iconography, but always one or two stand signal, and that above with so much blood, a woman knocked on her butt and dazed, a man down and attended to by another in a red jacket, the shrapnel details evident, the direction and effects of the blast seen in reverse, is the one I would choose.

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Do you watch the news, make the news, comment on the news, share the news?

Many years ago, I heard the prediction that the world in cyberspace would come to look an awful lot like the one in real space.

So it has come to pass.

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I don’t like the sidelines.

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Someone took that picture.

Sometimes we desktop Mitty journos do want to vet an element’s authenticity, e.g., does the video represent the riot under way or one that took place months ago?

There’s no question about the day and approximate time of the image posted here, but who was inside the lines to take it?  Where is the caption?

So who took the picture?

Who is in it?

What has happened to them?