{"id":20667,"date":"2021-05-26T01:27:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T05:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20667"},"modified":"2021-05-22T19:25:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T23:25:52","slug":"having-a-blast-with-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/having-a-blast-with-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"having a blast with photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20668\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20668\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20668\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Beirut-blast-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"126\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beirut Blast courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nabihbulos\/status\/1290662401399033856\">Nabih on Twitter<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. For years our thirst for social media images has decimated the numbers and profits of serious professional photographers. The value of these &#8216;amateur social media&#8217; recordings changed shortly after the huge blast on Beirut&#8217;s waterfront. On August 4th, 2020, world wide news stations and papers reported the massive explosion. After much speculation, it turned out to be caused by incorrectly stored ammonium nitrate.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, on November 20th, 2020, Jaron Schneider reported on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\">Petapixel<\/a>\u00a0the article written by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/author\/andrewliszewski\"> Andrew Liszewski<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\">Gizmodo<\/a> called, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2020\/11\/20\/forensic-experts-used-photos-and-videos-from-social-media-to-reconstruct-beirut-explosion\/\">Forensic Experts Used Photos and Videos From Social Media to Reconstruct Beirut Explosion<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The Forensic Experts used readily available stills and short videos on social media to create the time line of the explosion in perhaps a first for crowd sourcing images and video clips to reconstruct an historic event.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to past president, author, and sports photographer Les Jones for sharing ths amazing source with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. For years our thirst for social media images has decimated the numbers and profits of serious professional photographers. The value of these &#8216;amateur social media&#8217; recordings changed shortly after the huge blast on Beirut&#8217;s waterfront. On August 4th, 2020, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/having-a-blast-with-photography\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[3683,3681,3684,3680,3679,3089,3682],"class_list":["post-20667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-beirut","tag-forensic-expert","tag-lebanon","tag-reconstruction","tag-social-media","tag-stills","tag-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20672,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20667\/revisions\/20672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}