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Your best photos of the week, February 15, 2019
Each week, our editors choose stunning photos submitted by members of Your Shot, National Geographic's photo community.
“I was out shooting.”
If you didn’t have context, what would you think this sentence was about? Probably not photography. “To take a picture or series of pictures or television images of” is the twelfth out of thirteen definitions of “shoot” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Language like this is deeply ingrained into slang around the world despite having a violent, threatening connotation. Language like this has origins back to when photojournalists' were reporting from war-zones but now it feels archaic and insensitve.
I can’t count the number of mugs, t-shirts, notebooks that I’ve seen with cameras on the front proudly stating “I shoot people,” a dark play on words. It’s a little unsettling, isn’t it? I think during this particular