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Word of Mouth
11:58 am
Wed August 29, 2012

The Business of Nostalgia: Contoocook Photographer Builds a DIY Photobooth

No matter what the economy throws our way, the wedding industry churns on, now topping seventy billion dollars a year. Here's the story of one photographer vying for a slice of that cake by building his own version of the latest wedding trend…a “new-timey” photobooth.

Word of Mouth
10:13 am
Tue July 31, 2012

Robot Cameras Help Carry the Load at the Olympics

Credit pluckytree via Flickr Creative Commons

While the world’s top athletes compete at the  London 2012 Olympics, hundreds of photographers are contending to capture the game’s defining moments on camera.  To maximize its odds of snapping a winning pic, Reuters is getting some help, from robots.  The new shutter-bots will be stationed at Table Tennis, Boxing, Taekwondo, Judo, Fencing, Weight Lifting, and at the main Olympic Park for some of the big events.  Word of Mouth Producer Taylor Quimby caught up with Patrick Cain, a freelance reporter for th

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Word of Mouth
10:13 am
Tue July 17, 2012

Are you really my friend??

Produced with Zach Nugent

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Word of Mouth
11:46 am
Tue June 26, 2012

Fabulous Photos? There's an App for that.

Fabulous photos?… There’s an app for that. In fact there are lots and lots and it seems like everybody’s got ‘em. Adam Bronkhorst  has some tips to transform your tossed off smartphone snapshots into expressive, vibrant photos worthy of keeping, printing, and showing off. Adam Bronkhorst is a professional portrait photographer based in the UK.

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Word of Mouth
3:04 pm
Tue June 19, 2012

Postcards From Nowhere - Revisited

Produced with Emma Ruddock

In early May, Word of Mouth Brought you the story about Jake Jones and Andrew Kenney, two New York photographers who are traveling across the country by car. Fueled by their Kickstarter supporters, they are documenting their trip by sending postcards of their photography from each state to those who contributed funds. After receiving our first couple of postcards, Jake and Andrew stopped by our studio on their way through New Hampshire to give us an update on the status of their travels. 

Word of Mouth
5:04 pm
Fri June 1, 2012

The Other Homebrewing: Modified Cameras Catch Rare NH Wildlife

In December Fish and Game announced that for the first time they had captured photographs of Canadian Lynx alive in Northern New Hampshire. The photographer that snapped those pictures was an amateur biologist and student at UNH, named Peter Abdu.

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Word of Mouth
12:39 pm
Mon May 14, 2012

Photographed, but not forgotten

Photo by Pete Ashton, via Flickr Creative Commons

 Five years ago, the New York Times moved into a gleaming new office tower in mid-town Manhattan. The shimmering structure by Starchitect Renzo Piano was commended for being green and digital-ready. Half a block away, the paper’s archives could not be more dissimilar. The sub-sub-basement -- affectionately known as the Morgue --  is cramped with hundreds of cabinets, stuffed with twelve million clippings and more than six million photographs from the paper’s 160-year history.

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