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M. Scott BrauerExcited to share that one of my RNC balloon pictures has been Selected for the American Photography 41 book this year. If my count is correct, this is the 10th time my work has been in the book, which aims to highlight the best American photography in 2024. A big thanks to the judges, Mark and the team at AI-AP, and especially to editors Jane and Aeriel at Bloomberg Businessweek for twice taking my wacky pitch for this story. After 8 years, very glad to have finally gotten to photograph how the balloons get dropped at a convention! <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/photography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/photojournalism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photojournalism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/politics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/balloons?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#balloons</a>

Denise GMeteorologists raise alarm over grounding of Omaha weather balloons amid federal cuts“National Weather Service offices in Omaha and Rapid City, South Dakota, stopped deploying weather balloons, a key tool in forecasting. On the same day, six other weather stations in the central U.S, including at North Platte, halved their use of balloons.”<a href="https://stranger.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weather</a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Nebraska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nebraska</a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/NWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NWS</a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/balloons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#balloons</a> <a href="https://flatwaterfreepress.org/meteorologists-raise-alarm-over-grounding-of-omaha-weather-balloons-amid-federal-cuts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flatwaterfreepress.org/meteorologists-raise-alarm-over-grounding-of-omaha-weather-balloons-amid-federal-cuts/</a>

Kagan MacTane (he/him)Why are there so many <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/balloons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#balloons</a> all of a sudden? Simple answer is: we weren't really looking for them before. There have probably always been this many of them, and we just never noticed.<a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/ufos-spy-balloon-norad-sensors-military.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/ufos-spy-balloon-norad-sensors-military.html</a>

Kagan MacTane (he/him)Can we just cool it with the balloon panic, already?Some good examples of people overreacting to things over the past few decades, here. Can we learn from the past?<a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/national-security-norad-shoot-down-balloon-panic.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/national-security-norad-shoot-down-balloon-panic.html</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/balloons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#balloons</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BalloonPanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BalloonPanic</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#learning</a>

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