I have flown storms for the last six years. This flight to Hurricane #Ian on Kermit (#NOAA42) was the worst I’ve ever been on. I’ve never seen so much lightning in an eye. This was the eye. You can see the curvature. Understand this is at NIGHT. The light is from LIGHTNING.

Absolutely wild. All of this in the eye, in which we circled for some time to deploy the UAS (uncrewed aerial system). A high end Cat 4 storm. Nearly Cat 5. All of this at 8,000 feet above the ocean. I’m glad we only did one pass.

This is awesome.

Good for Missouri River runoff and part of fire season. Bad for weekend plans involving shorts.

Do wildfires “kill” forests? The answer is more complicated than you probably think. See how the forests are responding to the Cameron Peak Fire in our new StoryMap: https://t.co/8sgzaRqpOK

Microplastics found in human blood for first time

@SheDidWhatPGH Any of the Pittsburgh kids in this thread look familiar? Photos taken in 1950 - they'd be in their 70s now. cc: @OddPittsburgh @iheartpgh @billpeduto @PGHCityPaper

She’d be in her 70s now, do you know her? She might still be living in #Pittsburgh Photo 1950 in the Hill District by Elliott Erwitt The W McCloskey

Here's a rather stunning visualization shared during today's @Y2Y_Initiative conference on #roadecology, via Tom Martin of Montana DOT — a young grizzly bear attempting, and nearly always failing, to cross I-90. Each X is a highway approach. About as permeable as the Berlin Wall.

Just finished up the river flow project that I tweeted a video of a couple of days ago. It uses @USGS data to trace the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the contiguous US. You can give it a try here:

Very similar to this footage of the last flight out of Da Nang:

Thanks for sharing, @WashPostPhoto!

Go wife go!

Once again, my brain barely understands how we are able to capture an image of a vehicle parachuting down at hundreds of miles an hour by an orbiter traveling thousands of miles and hour on a planet millions of miles away

And even more so, how can I actively work to make sure that those unpaid internships at our publication don’t exist anymore, because we’ve made them redundant with new, year-long paid fellowships? Funded mentorships? Staff positions?

What can I do, as a photo editor, to use my employer’s resources to make the opportunities I had in the early years of my career available to more photographers?

Am I, as a photo editor, only looking at the work surfaced to me through pipelines that I recognize as ‘valid?’ Does my organization offer me the opportunity to publish work by names I don’t recognize?

I’m glad to see the system is starting to change, with more opportunities to get work in front of editors early in one’s photographic life. But now’s a good time to ask yourself: am I actively contributing to an exclusionary system in photography?

It felt like some badge of honor to have, as a young photo person, learned the game enough to have succeeded in finding those crucial first internships. Now it’s easier to see the way my privilege — not my “skill” at playing the internship game — helped me get the foothold.

Early in my photo career, I made the mistake of often thinking the former. Now I see the vital importance of changing the broken process that begins the very moment a photographer/photo editor enters the industry. And no, it doesn’t mean that quality standards have to be relaxed.