Melissa - while hunting the net for info on Mal James I came across this site. //hlford.com/essay.htm . It has some incrediable photo's (photojournalist style) and it opens with this essay about being a photojournalist. I thought I would post it here because it is worth sharing.

"A great photo happens when a photographer sees a situation unfolding in front of them that evokes an emotion that the photographer feels deep down, in the middle of their chest. And in a split second, they then make a conscience choice of exposure, lens, depth of field, lighting, body language, composition, etc., and releases the shutter. The film is then processed, scanned, laid out on a page, printed on a press, driven across town to the newspaper carrier who throws it on some guy's porch, who then opens the newspaper and looks down at that photo … and if that guy gets the same feeling deep down in the middle of his chest that the photographer did when they viewed the situation in the first place, they have made a great photo."

I hope that over the years I have just stirred one heart with my work that way.- Ellen aka. EAJ