Reuters photos of the year.

Happy holidays and happy new year.  Here are some of Reuters' best of 2011.

 REUTERS/Jason Lee

REUTERS/Damir Sagolj 

 REUTERS/Anis Mili

 REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Please go to this link to see all 100 images, behind-the-scene comments by the photographers and even camera settings used to make the image.  

Video of the Week

Directed and Shot by Dylan Wiehahn

Les Misérables

My friend Jordan Caress directed and performed in a rock concert of Les Misérables at the Mercy Lounge this past week.  It was really cool and I thank Jordan for letting me in to photograph this awesome rendition of the musical.

More on my Flickr.  

You can also scroll down on the sidebar to see a link to my photostream 

Photos ©2011 Martin B. Cherry

Found Image: Xmas Tree Lighting

Three years ago while working at The Journal, I was fortunate to cover the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at the White House.  You can read the article here.










Yep, that's George and Laura Bush.












This was a really cool event to cover.  It's a great opportunity to photograph a President, which doesn't come everyday.


images ©2011 journal-news.net. 

Another New Video!

Well New-ish.  I shot this with Nessa Kessinger back in 2009 in Austin, Texas.  She edited and posted her version soon after the shoot.  You can see it here.  I've been wanting to do my mix, but never got around to it until now.  Here it is finally;  Enjoy!


Nessa from Martin Cherry on Vimeo.

New Video!

I shot this with my friend Jason in Guangzhou, China.  It was this massive fishing dock behind our hotel.  it was bustling all night and day.  It's a bunch of raw clips edited together; pretty simple edit.

Enjoy.

Warning:  It may make you queazy!



Guangzhou Fishing Dock from Martin Cherry on Vimeo.

Video of the Week: NASA

This is the second time NASA made it for VotW.  It's kinda unfair since they can shoot where no other photographer can shoot.  Enjoy!  Watch in HD, full-screen if you can.




Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

Photographer of the Month: Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark is street photographer who inspired my photography in college.  Her revealing, uncropped images were an inspiration for me as a photojournalist.  I never liked cropping my images too much.  I shoot for what I wanted in the camera rather in the computer.

I believe in today's world of iPhones and camera-phones, everyone does some form of street photography now.  Usually for humor, cuteness, updates of their own life or news, but Mark's photograph's are deeper than that.  They are reminiscent of paintings of realsim in the 1850's.  Like she explains in the video, it reveals truth.  Mary Hellen Mark is the modern day realism artist.




(via New Yorker Magazine)

Video of the Week: CAMERAS

The anachronisms in this video are amazing.  Directed by Jens Hertzum.

Recent Work....

I've received a few gigs from the Nashville Scene recently.  Check them out!

Amazing story you can read here. 

Great article by Jonathan Meador (pictured) 

Read it here. 

Both stories were amazing and exciting to cover.  Thank you to the editors and reporters of SouthComm/ Nashville Scene.  

Video of the Week: Bentley Ad

Richard Morris shows how he composited several images for a Bentley promo photo.  Watch, learn, enjoy!





(source, jalopnik.com)

Found Image: Back to China

I go back to my external hard drives or even negatives and find old images that I have never edited or posted on this blog.

It's been about a year since I traveled to China.  I went back to my external HD of my China pics and vids.  Here are some I found that didn't noticed before.

 morning tea in Dali

 Woodworkers tools in Dali

 Feeding birds at Erhai Lake

 Lots of birds

 Restaurant manager in Lijiang 

Waterfalls at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain

All Photos ©2011 Martin B. Cherry.