Rob Wood

Morning News Producer, Host at KUOW-FM (Seattle, WA)

Producer and host at KUOW public radio in Seattle. The views are my own.

Articles

Are LiDAR Systems on Cars Destroying Camera Sensors?

1 week ago | lightstalking.com | Rob Wood

There's a bit of growing unrest among photographers on whether LiDAR systems that are being fitted in new cars are actually capable of destroying camera sensors. LiDAR systems are used by car manufacturers with self-driving cars to build 3D models of the surrounding environment so that the car knows where to steer. A thread on Reddit talks about how a car photographer had several cameras destroyed after doing a car photo shoot.
Simplicity, Street and a Contest! The Light Stalking Weekly Community Wrap Up!

2 weeks ago | lightstalking.com | Rob Wood

Welcome to the Light Stalking weekly wrap-up of our wonderful little community. We had another great week on the site this week with some very interesting photographs being submitted for our weekly challenge – Colour in Simplicity. Here are a few of our favourites. Pat Garrett:Frogdaily:Patrick:Tersha:Pat GarrettRobert AppleOver the last several months, Patrick has been producing some extraordinary black-and-white street photography that we thought was well overdue for a bit of a spotlight.
How Long Do You Keep Client's Files? Horror Story!

2 weeks ago | lightstalking.com | Rob Wood

It's a tale as old as time, but when you enter into work in the photography space without a contract, problems like this are bound to arise. An unfortunate Redditor recently revealed on the site that a client they had done a shoot for eight months previously came back asking for the download link. Unfortunately, and somewhat predictably, this was about a week after they had already deleted the client's photographs.
Climate Active and offsets have problems but destroying them could backfire

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Rob Wood

May 28, 2025 – 12.08pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Let me put this right up front – this is not a defence of the federal government’s Climate Active scheme. It is not perfect and should be improved. Nor is this an attempt to suggest that offsetting emissions using carbon credits is a substitute for actual emissions reductions.
April 2025 Photo Contest Winners: The Essence Of Movement

3 weeks ago | lightstalking.com | Rob Wood

We're happy to announce the winner of April's competition “The Essence Of Movement.”For those who don't know, the Light Stalking Monthly Photography Competition carries a $100 People's Choice Award and a $250 Overall Winner Award. The People's Choice Winner is selected by a vote of the community, whereas our guest judge selects the overall winner. Capturing movement in photography is a great way to show dynamism in an otherwise static scene.
March 2025 Photo Contest Winners: Surrealism And Dreamscapes

1 month ago | lightstalking.com | Rob Wood

We're happy to announce the winner of March's competition “Surrealism and Dreamscapes.”For those who don't know, the Light Stalking Monthly Photography Competition carries a $100 People's Choice Award and a $250 Overall Winner Award. The People's Choice Winner is selected by a vote of the community, whereas our guest judge selects the overall winner. Surrealism in photography is an art that can be used to capture unreal or dreamlike images. There are many ways in which this genre can be executed.
This is Money

2 months ago | investing.thisismoney.co.uk | Rob Wood

RNS Number : 1400F Breedon Group PLC 15 April 2025 LEI: 213800DQGNQE3X76WS92 15 April 2025 BREEDON GROUP plc (Breedon or the Company) Notification of transactions by Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility (PDMRs) The Company announces that on 11 April 2025 participants of the Company's Performance Share Plan (PSP) were allotted a total of 494,854 ordinary shares of £0.01 in the Company (Ordinary Shares) as a consequence of the vesting of awards made under the PSP in 2022.
Higher minimum wage levels help many workers, but there are tradeoffs

2 months ago | m.kuow.org | Rob Wood |John O'Brien

Minimum wage increases are controversial. Most workers favor them, and many business owners don't. The Washington state minimum wage is $16.66 an hour. That's the highest state minimum in the United States. Seattle's increased to $20.76 this year, with some exceptions. Nate Sanford is a Murrow News Fellow reporting for Cascade PBS and KNKX. He looked into the pros and cons of higher wages in the Seattle area for a recent article. KUOW’s Rob Wood asked him about it.
February 2025 Photo Contest Winners: Visual Metaphors

2 months ago | lightstalking.com | Rob Wood

We're happy to announce the winner of February’s competition “Visual Metaphors.”For those who don't know, the Light Stalking Monthly Photography Competition carries a $100 People's Choice Award and a $250 Overall Winner Award. The People's Choice Winner is selected by a vote of the community, whereas our guest judge selects the overall winner. Visual metaphors in photography is used to convey visual representations of something, or to associate similarities.
January 2025 Photo Contest Winners: Color Theory In Practice

Mar 10, 2025 | lightstalking.com | Rob Wood

We're happy to announce the winner of January’s competition “Color Theory In Practice.”For those who don't know, the Light Stalking Monthly Photography Competition carries a $100 People's Choice Award and a $250 Overall Winner Award. The People's Choice Winner is selected by a vote of the community, whereas our guest judge selects the overall winner. The “Color Theory In Practice” photo contest had varied images and it was interesting to see the participants' interpretation of the theme.