Tom Roop News Today

Giant Camera June 2002 The proprietor sits behind a window in a tiny room not much larger than a phone booth. He collects the $1 admission and directs you to the door. "Enjoy the view." You enter a small, dimly lit room. In the center of the room is a large parabolic disc. It glows with the swirling active motion of the rocky Pacific coast. The view is hypnotizing. You are standing in the belly of the San Franciscos Giant Camera camera obscura---a functioning relic. The Jennings Giant Camera...

Our reporters this year did what they do every year: They wrote the first drafts of history. They did it at protests and rallies. But they also did it in living rooms in front of grieving families and in graveyards as ancestors waited for peace. We asked each reporter and photographer at the Tulsa World to share their most memorable stories and photos. Today, we asked reporters to reflect back on their work. Next Sunday, it’s the photographers’ turn. It’s important to remember so...