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Howard Owens is a digital media pioneer. He started publishing local news online in 1995 when very few local news outlets had web sites. The header image on the site depicts the film camera he used early in his career and the press pass from his year on the staff of the Carlsbad Journal. For more on Howard's professional background, read his LinkedIn profile.
HowardOwens.com is the personal web site of Howard Owens and covers his range of interests -- political localism and libertarianism, music and personal interests, as well as his professional interests.
Howard is currently publisher of The Batavian and lives in Batavia, N.Y.
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Naturialism and photography
When I was 16 I remember arguing with a friend and classmate about the kind of music we would try to make together. He played bass. I played guitar. He liked Rush, Emerson Lake and Palmer and Yes. I preferred … Continue reading
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Black and White Film, Roll 3
As part of my ongoing experiment/playing with film, here’s the third roll of black and white I’ve shot recently. This was shot with my old Nikkromat. My goal was to have 12 publishable shots from the 24 exposure roll. I’m … Continue reading
Photography: Finding order in chaos
Over the past couple of years I’ve been more than pleased, thrilled even, with the praise I’ve gotten from a wide range of people — friends, colleagues, family, readers, etc. — for my photography. Often times, the individual photos that … Continue reading
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BW roll with my Nikkormat
As I mentioned previously, I was going to try a roll of Kodak BW400cn in my old Nikkormat. This post is about the results. Most of my shots are not worth sharing. I spent a good 12 shots playing with … Continue reading
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Photographing Marty Stuart
As a music fan, I enjoy taking pictures of musicians. Thankfully, Batavia has a fairly vibrant music scene and there are plenty of local bands I can go out and see and shoot. But ever since taking up a camera … Continue reading
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A first roll of black and white film in nearly 20 years
The last roll of film I shot was probably in 1992, when I left the Daily Californian in El Cajon, Calif. After that, I put away my Nikkormat and I can’t remember touching a camera again until about 2002 when … Continue reading
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Introducing VuFindr.com
I’ve always been interested in photography, but when I had a good SLR I couldn’t afford much in the way of film or developing. Then, when digital came along, I couldn’t afford, nor justify, anything but a point-and-shot camera.
In running The Batavian, I realized that with no photography staff, the "reporter armed with nothing more than a point-and-shot" just wouldn’t cut it. There are some photo assignments that can only be handled by a quality SLR camera.
So I bought a Nikon D90.
This immediately led to an improvement in my photography, which led to a lot of positive reader feedback, which encouraged me even more to take photography more seriously.
I’m very pleased the the ongoing positive feedback I get from friends, family and readers for the pictures I’ve been taking.
I don’t know where a serious interest in photography will take me, but I keep pursuing it.
This has led me to set up a photoblog: VuFindr.com.
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Telling the story of community in photos
Some of you will remember that my first online endeavor was to launch an online news site in eastern San Diego County called East County Online. That was in 1995.
Some time ago I did a tweet suggesting that somebody should start an online site that told the story of a local community not with the written word, but almost entirely with photos.
I thought it would be an interesting experiment.
I doubt whomever started EastCountyNews.net knows anything about me or ever saw that tweet, but it is, in fact, a community news photo site. And the publishers took it a step further. it’s also in print.
That’s pretty cool.