I make an effort to keep photos of myself off the internet, not because I'm concerned about privacy because I gave up on that long ago, but mostly because I'm not capable of that relaxed-and-ready-to-photograph smile that people actually like to see in photos. Mostly, I end up tagged somewhere on Facebook looking like an awkward troll unprepared for the realities of human existence. It's sad. Livable, but sad.

However, accidentally leave your camera in a Indonesian national park and a black macaque takes the photo of a lifetime. I'm sure it went up as his Facebook profile pic immediately. However, it does cheer me up to know it took some trial and error for a monkey to take a great photo:

He must have taken hundreds of pictures by the time I got my camera back, but not very many were in focus. He obviously hadn't worked that out yet.

Photographer Josh Morgan went down to Hereford, Arizona to document the evacuations resulting from the Monument Fire.

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Scenes from the Monument Fire

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Click on the above photo somewhere. Watch as the focus changes. The forthcoming Lytro camera allows the user to shoot digital photos and then play around with the focal point of the image using computer software later. Worried that you're missing the point with what you're photographing? Just shoot stuff and work out the details later, which sounds like exactly the sort of camera I need.

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Photos From the Wallow Fire

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Story by Nick Scala, photos by Josh Morgan

The smoke swells as its billowing plumes blanket the sky across the visible horizon. Dark clouds, accented by a reddish hue from the raging inferno below, spread across the Eastern Arizona skies. For the last nine days, the Wallow Fire invaded hundreds of thousands of acres of land, human property and animal habitat. Unhindered by the efforts of hundreds of firefighters, the wildfire raged with an intensity matched only by a handful of previous fires.

“It’s kinda pretty in a horrible way, ain’t it?” asked Bryon Harrington, an evacuating resident of Eager, Ariz., thinking out loud as he watched the dark gray, glowing orange smoke cloud from a parking pullout three miles outside of Springerville, Ariz.

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• Firefighters perform a backburn operation outside of Eager, Ariz. The Wallow Fire is burning through over 400,000 acres of land in eastern Ariz. and western N.M.

Thousands of people and animals have been displaced from their homes and habitats while firefighters continue to battle the raging Wallow inferno.

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• Gary Knight, Newsweek photographer, lectures in the Magazine Photojournalism class at the UA School of Journalism.

Gary Knight, an international photojournalist and VII Photo Agency co-founder, is in Tucson to add his visual style, and those of his students, to the immigration discussion in the nation.

Knight, who is also the founding director of Tufts University Institute for Global Leadership Narrative and Documentary Practice Program, is in town to work with local members, students and alumni, of the National Association of Hispanic journalists - UA Student Chapter, the Society of Professional Journalists - UA Student Chapter, and the UA's Journalism Student Advisory Council.

While nearly everyone in America has made up their mind about Barack Obama and filters any information about him through that lens, there's still something cool for me in a president who makes sure he grabs a Guinness during his trip to Ireland.

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Tucson Weekly photographer Josh Morgan was on the scene for Tucson's slutwalk on Friday afternoon.

Why a slutwalk? It's a revolution against the idea that it's OK to assault a woman based on her manner of dress. You can find details here.

More photos after the jump.

From Twitpic user @Stefmara:

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Los Lobos

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This week's issue has a review of the Los Lobos show last Friday including a photo by Elliott. However, of course, we had a number of great photos that we couldn't publish, so why not share them with you all on the blog?