Don't waste you Kraft Dinner money on journalism school. Here is all you need to know to be a TV reporter ...with apologies to my TV reporter friends :^)

I'll try for some street views next week ...gl

The proposal from Fortis Properties to build a 15 story building on Water Street in St. John's and demolish historic buildings in the heritage zone of downtown drew fire almost immediately. It is so far beyond the city's development plan and heritage regulations you can't help ask why bother?

CBC did a pretty good job dropping the new Fortis buildings into the view from The Rooms. Kudos to the Photoshop Jockey. I thought I would see what it would look like from other parts of the city. Instead of photoshopping the artists concept into a photo I thought I would like to simply see how it would block out the views. This way you can see what is behind. Scale is accurate in the faded down areas. There is no doubt this building would be the biggest thing in the sky.

...here is the film for you.

30 Years of Photojournalism: The 1986 NAPE Strike was particularly acrimonious even for a Newfoundland government workers strike. Police started dragging strikers away when they blocked the west wing of the Confederation Building. It was also the first time that union leaders were charged and convicted by the government.

This was a bonus assignment while back home in St. John's to cover a trans Atlantic balloon crossing and the start of Rick Hansen's cross Canada leg of his Man in Motion around the world wheelchair journey.

I think that is it for the black & white print box. Photos added to the project folder. ...over there in the left side column.

Considering the news out of Haiti I'll dive into my Haiti file next. I have made a couple of trips to Haiti. The last time was in the summer of 1996 with Canada's Royal 22nd Regiment during their UN mission.

30 Years of Photojournalism: Former Premier of Newfoundland, Frank Duff Moores  in a hospitality suite at the 1991 Newfoundland Progressive Conservative Party leadership convention in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Moores was the second premier of Newfoundland (1972-1979) and the man who knocked off Liberal premier Joey Smallwood who brought Newfoundland into the Canadian confederation in 1949. Moores died July 10, 2005 in Perth, Ontario

Photo by Greg Locke © 2009