JWJ selected foto - Pulau Klang, Krabi

Persembahan kebudayaan di Pulau Klang, Krabi, Siam.

Shot with GF1 M Zuiko 17mm 2.8

JWJ selected foto - Phang-Nga

Phang-nga, Siam

Shot with Nikon D2h

Damnoen Saduak - Floating Market Thailand

Kelapa vs Pisang

Merdeka 52 - Parlimen Malaysia

Keberangkatan Pulang

DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin- Yang Dipertuan Agong Malaysia

Merdeka 52, Parlimen Malaysia

31st August 2009/10 Ramadhan 1430

Selamat Tinggal Dunia 2008

Enjin Masih Berasap - smoking engine

Casualties

Kuala Lumpur 01 JAN. – Sambutan Tahun Baru yang sepatutnya disambut dengan ceria disudahi dengan kemalangan ngeri. Sebuah kereta terbabas, melanggar pembahagi jalan di Jalan Tun Razak pagi ini. Kejadian yang berlaku kira-kira jam tiga pagi  selepas 'countdown' itu menyebabkan kesesakan lalu-lintas di kedua-dua hala jalan tersebut. Kemalangan dahsyat itu mengakibat satu kematian dan cedera parah. Ambulan dari hospital Kuala Lumpur tiba 15 minit selepas kejadian. Pemandu dan penumpang dipercayai wanita.

sekian.
Herman Abdullah

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Dua rakan maut selepas sambut Tahun Baru

01/01/2009 6:09pm

KUALA LUMPUR 1 Jan. — Kegembiraan tiga sahabat menyambut tahun baru bertukar tragedi apabila dua daripada mereka maut setelah kereta yang mereka naiki terbabit dalam satu kemalangan di Jalan Tun Razak di sini, awal pagi tadi.

Pemandu kereta itu, Nur Aina Rashid, 24, serta penumpang hadapan Nor Salina Abd Wahab, 20, terkorban manakala rakan mereka, Norida Meor Othman, 21, cedera di bahagian belakang bahu.

Pegawai Turus Siasatan dan Perundangan Trafik Kuala Lumpur, DSP Abdullah Roning berkata, kejadian pukul 3 pagi itu berlaku apabila kereta Satria Neo dipandu Nur Aina yang menghala ke Jalan Sungai Besi hilang kawalan di selekoh berhampiran terowong Jalan Tun Razak. - Bernama

4,000 U.S. Deaths, and a Handful of Images

BAGHDAD — The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them dead has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war.

Zoriah Miller, the photographer who took images of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of the country. Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the Marine commander in Iraq, is now seeking to have Mr. Miller barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world. Mr. Miller has since left Iraq.

If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists — too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts — the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers.

It is a complex issue, with competing claims often difficult to weigh in an age of instant communication around the globe via the Internet, in which such images can add to the immediate grief of families and the anger of comrades still in the field.

While the Bush administration faced criticism for overt political manipulation in not permitting photos of flag-draped coffins, the issue is more emotional on the battlefield: local military commanders worry about security in publishing images of the American dead as well as an affront to the dignity of fallen comrades. Most newspapers refuse to publish such pictures as a matter of policy.

But opponents of the war, civil liberties advocates and journalists argue that the public portrayal of the war is being sanitized and that Americans who choose to do so have the right to see — in whatever medium — the human cost of a war that polls consistently show is unpopular with Americans.

Journalists say it is now harder, or harder than in the earlier years, to accompany troops in Iraq on combat missions. Even memorial services for killed soldiers, once routinely open, are increasingly off limits. Detainees were widely photographed in the early years of the war, but the Department of Defense, citing prisoners’ rights, has recently stopped that practice as well.

And while publishing photos of American dead is not barred under the “embed” rules in which journalists travel with military units, the Miller case underscores what is apparently one reality of the Iraq war: that doing so, even under the rules, can result in expulsion from covering the war with the military.

“It is absolutely censorship,” Mr. Miller said. “I took pictures of something they didn’t like, and they removed me. Deciding what I can and cannot document, I don’t see a clearer definition of censorship.”

The Marine Corps denied it was trying to place limits on the news media and said Mr. Miller broke embed regulations. Security is the issue, officials said.

“Specifically, Mr. Miller provided our enemy with an after-action report on the effectiveness of their attack and on the response procedures of U.S. and Iraqi forces,” said Lt. Col. Chris Hughes, a Marine spokesman.

News organizations say that such restrictions are one factor in declining coverage of the war, along with the danger, the high cost to financially ailing media outlets and diminished interest among Americans in following the war. By a recent count, only half a dozen Western photographers were covering a war in which 150,000 American troops are engaged.

In Mr. Miller’s case, a senior military official in Baghdad said that while his photographs were still under review, a preliminary assessment showed he had not violated ground rules established by the multinational force command. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing, emphasized that Mr. Miller was still credentialed to work in Iraq, though several military officials acknowledged that no military unit would accept him.

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Fotosketches: PRU12 N17 Gombak Setia.

Malaysia 12th General Election - N17 Gombak Setia:
Policemen and the football fence separates the roaring crowd from the hall, in which the ballots counting event take place. It takes horribly 9 1/2 hours before the SPR announced the winning result for N17 that is finally belongs to BA.

Lihat siri lengkap fotostil di www.modmantfoto.com

Date: 08.03.2008
Event: PRU12 Ballot counting
Venue: Dewan Batu 8 Gombak, Selangor Malaya.
Camera : Nikon D2H
Lens: Nikkor 24mm f2.8

I am the shade in the shadow.
modmantfoto.com

Excerpts: Photojournalism-The Professional's Approach

"Can anyone predict the future of photojournalism?
The death of the field has been announced numerous times. With the advent of television in the early 1950s. Robert Capa, the famous war photographer and founding member of Magnum (pages 10 and 359-360), stated that photojournalism was finished. He was wrong...

Some event say that with expansion of the World Wide Web, streaming video will supplant the need for still photojournalism. So far the prophecies have not materialized.

More than fifty years after Capa's prediction of its death, photojournalism is alive and well...In fact the WWW has resulted in an explosion of easliy available information. The mariage of still images and words remains the most efficient way to report a news.

Today's photojournalist no longer need a printing press to circulate their work. They can use the Web to distribute every picture and story they produce..."

by : Kenneth Kobre, 2004, Photojournalism-The Professional's Approach, Focal Press, UK