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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Making the Wall Street Journal


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One of my photographs is on the front page of the 0nline Wall Street Journal. The print edition had it on page A-6 in the continuation of a front page story.

I just thought I'd share that with you. The WSJ has the second largest paid circulation, after USA Today, with over two million.


You might say that the photo published in the Wall Street Journal wasn't street photography. After all it is just of a car. In fact it was part of a series of photos I took at Little Harbor to document the very controversial crime watch which you may have read about in the newspaper. The director of the program was arrested for hitting a woman on purpose with his crime watch car.

When the driver (not the crime watch director) saw me he turned and pulled up next to me demanding to know why I was taking their pictures.

I told him simply "because I want to".

The teenager in the car thought it was all amusing but the man was angry.

Who am I anyway?

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Hal Brown
Middleboro, Massachusetts
You can read about my career in Michigan as director of the Mason Mental Health Center here. Here's a sample page from 1999 of my first controversial website, Cranberry Stressline. That site not only frequently made the local newspapers but also had articles about it on the AP, and in the New York Times and Forbes. Police Stressline, although not updated in several years, continues to be a popular website on law enforcement stress. I currently write a column about politics on Capitol Hill Blue.
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