Welcome to the June 2004 issue of The Digital Journalist, the monthly online magazine for visual journalism.

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After 19 years inside the Beltway, the last 7 of those as TIME magazine's Washington, DC, bureau picture editor, Colburn is in the process of heading west.

I've been running around Washington telling everybody that I'm leaving Time Magazine.

For the photojournalist, unlike the artist or commercial photographer who can control the color in the picture, color can be the great leveler.

Over the weekend, I heard a young marine who had returned from Iraq interviewed on NPR about the Abu Ghraib photographs. "Sure they're obscene," he said, "Everything else about war's obscene; why wouldn't they be?"

In our increasingly visually oriented society, photography has, ironically, become devalued in the American consciousness.

LIFE photographer Robert Capa was not the only cameraman on the bloody beaches of Normandy on June 6th 1944.

June 6, 1944: In Remembrance

I was twelve years old when the radio announced that the Allies had launched the long awaited invasion of Europe that would ultimately lead to victory and the end of World War II. That day was June 6, 1944 and would come to be known as D-Day.

I gravitated to the "blues" clubs and festivals and became fascinated with not only this music genre but the musicians themselves and where they came from.

I've never used a DV cam in my life.

I'm paid to do nothing. Sometimes I do plenty of nothing.

'Blog' is now the latest gobbledygook noun in the English language. Lewis Carroll would be proud.

Just as we're beginning to get comfortable with the idea of Websites and what to do with them, along comes this thing called RSS, and it threatens to be the granddaddy of all disruptive technologies.

The Nikon D70 is a pretty amazing little camera. For a relatively small price you get a whole lot of picture-taking ability.