Ginger Cooley is 22, currently live in Alaska and originally from Louisiana.

Cooley's major is photojournalism, and she also studied visual arts and 3d animation. Currently work as a photographer for The Northern Light student newspaper at UAA (University of Alaska, Anchorage), as well as working with professional photographers Randi and Fred Hirschmann in Wasilla, Alaska.

Beautiful collection of her inspiring art and photojournalism can be experienced here.

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Thirty-three out of 40 photographers polled through an online arts website said digital was their preferred medium.

Rob Gomez, a fine art photography major at Pasadena City College in California responded in an online poll saying: “I like the fact that digital has instant results, you can see your picture right after you take it in most cases.”

June Chanpoomidole, a photography hobbyist, said in an email interview “It's easier to handle and you can change the photo to get what you want or what the customer might want.”

It is abundantly clear that digital photography is the choice of masses because it brings photography into the hands of even the most inexperienced and/or low-budget photographers.

Regine Estelle Skelton remarked in the online polls, “With digital photography you can learn by trial and error, whereas with traditional you must learn beforehand in order to afford your hobby. If you take 200 pictures and only three turn out well, you're paying a lot of money by going the traditional route.”

Ultimately, digital and traditional photography will continue to snap at each other until digital can afford the same high quality images as traditional film. In an email interview Laura Halvorsen, a young photographer at age 19 replied: “There is something wonderfully calming and artistic about developing black and white pictures in a darkroom, which is one of the most compelling reasons that I photograph. However, I find that getting film developed through another establishment is inadequate, and if I cannot post-process, then I use digital.”