There’s a great temptation in newsrooms to leap from text to video and forget the online power of still images – particularly when combined with top-quality audio, as here.

Here in the UK, the contribution of staff photographers often gets squeezed out in the dash to train multimedia journalists (to do everything including take pictures). Well, here’s how the unique skills of a good photographer can prove their unequalled worth.

I take my hat off to Will Yurman. And thanks, Mindy, for sharing.

Back you the post above: Yurman says he finds stills easier for him – and that video may be easier for others. He’s correct. When I shoot stills, it can be a struggle. But with video, how to use the gear is in the background. While I’m shooting I’m processing what I hear (nats and interviews) and always thinking about the next shot and how to cover what the subject is saying. My mind is hardwired into sequencing. It would seem to be more a matter of what you know and are comfortable with.

Let me re-enforce what Debbie had to say – I, too, come to your site for the details I can’t find elsewhere. You’re not just a site to visit and then move on. I always leave with something I can use or mull over.

When I hear that someone actually gets something out of reading my posts, it gives me a little incentive to keep going.