Cyndy Green
Marrying old and new…
…technologies that is. So in my gear bags I have stuff that is more than a decade old that can be married with my new toys. We’re talking June-December weddings here folks. Analog and digital. Fresh out of the box and faded with time. My mainstay tripod/now too heavy for everyday use (purchased in 2002) Read More →
What’s old is new…
…again. Retro can be all the rage…and if you haven’t skidded over the 30 year mark, then either sit back and enjoy the ride or skedaddle. If you’re looking back at fifty, enjoy the memories. It’s happened again. There’s a whole generation now who have not lived without something I could never have conceived of Read More →
Those who make the rules…
…determine who is equal. Strange how similar discussions take place with very different people in far ranging venues. So women are finally allowed to be “equal” in the military and over on the NPPA facebook page there’s a lengthy thread about equality. Some who think there never can really be equality and some who say Read More →
Either I’m damn good or…
…there’s no competition out there anymore. Who knows, but twice in the past month unapplied for accolades have come the way of this blog. journalism.co.uk journalismdegree.org (Don’t know if I’m at the bottom of the lists due to “V”s place in the alphabet or because I just slid in under the line…)
Battling the modern mindset…
…and its deep rooted trust of technology. I’m an old geezeress. Got my toehold in news in the waning days of film, shifted to 3/4 tape and took off running and never looked back. One thing that was embedded in my nerve system was to always use manual controls…never trust the machine. This was especially Read More →
Choosing a camera 4.0…
It is probably about time to update this. Not to buy a camera, mind you, but to revisit a topic that must continually be updated, thanks to techno-changes, which NEVER seem to slow down. A good and a bad thing. Good cause those little babycams seem to get better and better. Bad cause…well, who really […]
View from Day One…
New means hope. New birth. New life. New Year. A fresh slate and the opportunity to re-write our old lives and mistakes…to move forward and become better. Today I close out my Cyndy Green/thinknews facebook account. That was new last year and while it was entertaining and fairly easy to pull off, it had zero […]