Pretty nice photo, huh? That's Barack Obama at Madison's Monona Terrace Convention Center last fall. Monona Terrace was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, so it's hard to ignore the architecture when you're shooting in there. But this photo does just that -- it could've been taken anywhere. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on what's right about this photo, so let's just say the composition is pretty nice. Balanced from corner to corner, it's a great example of a photographer thinking on his feet and using the golden section.
But, of course, it's not my intention to write about what a great portrait of Barack Obama Joseph W. Jackson III took for the Wisconsin State Journal. It's the accompanying article that's the newsworthy item -- the photo just jumped out at me and I thought it was worth mentioning. The bigger news is that one of my local papers has endorsed Barack Obama.
I can't remember the last time WSJ has endorsed a Democrat -- perhaps never in my lifetime. Until recently, there were always two print papers in the city, The Capital Times and the Wisconsin State Journal -- the Journal was the conservative paper. Losing money as the evening paper, the Times ended their print edition and moved to a web-only format. WSJ's endorsement of Obama is kind of a big deal...
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