The superb series of audio slideshows profiling the lives of ordinary New Yorkers, called “One in Eight Million” won an Emmy in the category of “new approaches to  news and documentary programming.”

If you haven’t checked out this series, photographed by talented NY Times staffer Todd Heisler, and produced by other staff members from the Times, you’re in for a treat.

It is simple, powerful multimedia storytelling at its best: no bells and whistles, fancy graphics, or celebrity subjects. Just the subject’s voice telling his or her story running under Heisler’s evocative black and white photography.

For about a year, Heisler profiled one New Yorker a week, and I have to confess, I used to wait in anticipation for the next biography, so well done are these pieces and so unique and fascinating the subjects.

Heisler has moved on to other projects, but the series is still up and will provide a lot of inspiration for anyone who wants to tell stories with their photographs…. 

Well, I’ve gotten more than a few emails asking me “what’s up with the new look of the blog, and what’s with all the unrelated and out of order posts?”

I would have given you guys a heads up that I was throwing my hat in with the folks at Pixiq in an effort to be able to continue spending as much time blogging as I have been without having to moonlight as a cab driver to pay for bandwidth and food, but the “porting” of the blog happened while I was in Africa and a little ahead of schedule. 

We’re giving this a try as the new home of the blog. It works out better for me, and I think, once you get used to the new look, that you’ll find a lot more information from a ton of great sources here. 

As for the excerpts of my book that are getting posted, not to worry, that’ll wind down. The Pixiq folks were concerned that in my absence in West Africa, there wouldn’t be enough fresh content coming in.  So you’re getting some nice swaths of my last book….free! Yes, I may have changed the gear in my bag since that book was written, but most of the other info is evergreen.

I’ve got the blogroll of my links back up, and true, you can’t jump directly to my listings of seminars and workshops (we’re working on that), but, er, not a lot of folks did that at the old blogsite, so I figured it’s no great loss:-).

I’m still learning the new template, and I expect that there’ll be some gaffed posts until I figure it out (software genius that I am). But hang in there and you’ll get the same Photo Traveler bullsh…,er, I mean, wisdom you’ve been used to.

I had the chance to sit down and chat with fellow travel photographer Rosanne Pennella about a wide range of issues affecting traveling photographers and Nikon got it all on tape.

We chatted about how we plan for an assignment, how to overcome security and language barriers, when to go to favorite places, and a whole range of other topics.

You can see the video here on Nikon’s site.