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Charles Dharapak of the Associated Press gets a gold star for making the front cover of The Washington Post & New York Times on Friday. His picture of Harriet Meiers waving to the press and biting her lip as she delivers her "formal" letter of withdrawl (for nomination to The Supreme Court), to the President, is the perfectly posed timely picture the photodesk has wetdreams about. This guy should get a raise. Check out other front pages of newspapers worldwide HERE.

Madonna sited in DC...

...sorry, the other Madonna. Walking up Connecticut Avenue in DC I passed a long line of newspaper boxes and stopped at the "madonna and child" on Friday's cover of the NYT. The colors, the focus are beautiful. The reference to the "madonna and child" is helped by the gray cloth wrapped around the mother's head and the impoverished surronding in the image caused by the earthquake on the Pakistan/Indian border. Not wanting to put any more of a "western eye" on a woman and child that are unknown to me, I'll stop.

The photodesk at the NYT has once again proved they have a great eye. Photographer Gurinder Osan for the Associated Press deserves much of the credit. See more of Osan's work HERE and HERE.

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