Redlights and Redeyes

ice ice baby

May 28, 2011 by chip

So much blue, so little time. It’s not red, but I can hang with any fan base that slathers itself in primary color for my own benefit. I spent a little time the last couple weeks helping out the team photographer, Mr. Audette (he’ll enjoy the fact I called him Mr.), with fan shots during the Tampa Bay Lightning’s amazing run through the NHL Playoffs. No action, just features…which was just fine by me. I enjoy wandering with a mission [...]

Categories: photos, sports • Tags: bruins, capitals, Chip Litherland, fans, hockey, ice, NHL, playoffs, St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa Bay Lightning

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the image, deconstructed

May 28, 2011 by chip

Just got featured on The Image, Deconstructed, which is a wonderful new platform run by Ross Taylor that breaks down a photograph and the thought process into making that single image. There has been some wonderful talent featured as of late, so I’m in great company. Check it. Here. Tweet

Categories: archive, in print, news, photojournalism industry, photos, promo • Tags: Chip Litherland, contact sheet, fire, mennonite, photojournalism, ross taylor, the image deconstructed

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foreclosureda

May 16, 2011 by chip

Assignment: go on tour with realtor and reporter to homes left abandoned in North Port, FL. If anything had “oh-no” written all over it, that did. I’ve been on the “tour-with-realtor” assignments a million times before, not getting into any house, struggling to make pictures at 65 mph. However, the realtor, Shannon Moore, saved the day. She understood exactly what I wanted, and had all the codes and keys to make it happen over a couple hours on an [...]

Categories: photos, random gratuitousness, sprawlscapes, The New York Times • Tags: Chip Litherland, Florida, foreclosure, housing crash, new york times, north port, port charlotte

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15,889 photos for scott kelby

May 16, 2011 by chip

Got asked to do a little guest blog post for Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider blog…check it out! Here. Tweet

Categories: in print, news, photojournalism industry, promo, shout outs • Tags: Chip Litherland, color, freelance, personal vision, photojournalism, photoshop insider, print is dead and/or dying, scott kelby, staff photographer

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room with a view (room 3031)

May 9, 2011 by chip

It’s the same for every one of us. You finally check into a random hotel, cart all your belongings up an elevator, down a hallway, and end up at a numbered door. The door entry card never works the first time, but then you get it to open, push open the heaviest door you’ve ever encountered, and walk into a dark room grasping for the first light switch so you can dump the 200 lbs of luggage onto one [...]

Categories: photos, random gratuitousness, sprawlscapes, travel • Tags: Chip Litherland, color, downtown, epic hotel, glass, high-rise, hoptel views, landscapes, miami, reflections, room with a view

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history or his story?

May 5, 2011 by chip

At first glance the photo is history. This is the moment in time that will forever be remembered. For what most of what America saw in print, the images were completely false. By now, most have heard the photo of POTUS announcing that Osama bin Laden had been killed was a re-enactment. Still shooters were kept out of the room during the televised address to the nation. Second passed, then President Obama walked right back in and fakes it [...]

Categories: photojournalism industry, photos, politics, The New York Times • Tags: Chip Litherland, ethics, Flickr, Obama, osama bin laden, photojouralism, photoshop, potus, re-enactments, white house

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