Pickles & Onions

Stripes

2012-01-22T08:50:00.000-08:00

Red Light

2012-01-14T20:17:00.000-08:00

Hoops

2012-01-13T11:37:00.001-08:00

From the Hip

2012-01-12T10:26:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I check my exposure with my digital camera when I'm shooting film. These two came out pretty nice for blind shots.

The Necessary Room

2011-12-31T06:08:00.000-08:00

Passenger Seat

2011-12-28T11:47:00.001-08:00

Center

2011-12-21T11:25:00.001-08:00

Triangles

2011-12-16T14:34:00.000-08:00

Lucky & Owen

2011-12-13T13:06:00.001-08:00

Dummies

2011-05-08T17:52:00.000-07:00

On my way to Cullman, Alabama last week I pulled over in a little town called Falkville to take a break and found this mannequin scene in an antique/junk store window.

Porches

2011-05-07T15:30:00.000-07:00

Here are a few of the images I used in a porch series for my Southern Culture folk studies class. The first and last were taken in Cullman, Alabama when I was working on a story about the tornadoes that hit there last week. The middle one is a couple here in Warren County on Louisville Road.

Hackett

2011-04-19T20:34:00.000-07:00

"Buddy Hackett" works with Michael Carter as a service dog and is basically his 24/7 companion. This is a still from the multimedia project I am working on with them for our social advocacy assignment.

Chickens, horses, baseball, etc.

2010-10-09T10:32:00.000-07:00

Victoria Kelly, the namesake for Western's Kelly Autism Program in a therapy pool where she swims with her KAP mentor.

Team ropers at the Lone Star Rodeo last February in Western's Agricultural Exposition Center.

Barren County, Ky.

Western shortstop Matt Payton during one of their games against Vanderbilt last spring.

A wipe out on a section of Arkansas River rapids in central Colorado during the 26-mile FIBArk Whitewater Festival Downriver Race from Salida to Cotopaxi.

Street rods at a Super 8 in Pueblo.

Fourth of July fireworks, downtown Pueblo.

A Great Lakes Loons fan before a game last fall.

Junior Olympics pole vaulting in Pueblo.

Pueblo County Fair

Rodeo queen competition at the National Little Britches Finals Rodeo in Pueblo.

Bull riding at the National Little Britches Finals Rodeo in Pueblo.

"Yellow Face", one of four chickens being raised by a family in Pueblo, where residents are allowed to raise up to 10 fowl in the city limits.

Candle-light-vigil for a fatal shooting victim in Pueblo.

This post is pretty much my CPOY entry this year, minus several that I published in previous posts.

Owen and Chairs

2010-10-04T18:18:00.000-07:00

Gradually going through everything since January and I'm going to make several posts here and there for the rest of this semester. These two were taken at the beginning of this semester. This sign was behind my neighbor's house, and the dog is Owen, a beagle we found on 31W in Elizabethtown.

Pueblo

2010-06-28T15:40:00.000-07:00

Been out here in Colorado now for the past few weeks and I'm just wrapping up my second week here at the Pueblo Chieftain. I was on my way back from an assignment yesterday and a storm rolled over so I tried my hand at getting a lightning shot over the city's whitewater park on the Arkansas River.

Final Days in Saginaw

2010-02-10T13:33:00.000-08:00

This is a portrait of a woman the paper ran with a story on her accomplishments in children's mental health services at the Saginaw County Community Mental Health Clinic.

This is one of the features I turned in from Black Friday. A mother and her two daughters huddling up for warmth while waiting outside of Target for the doors to open just before 5a.m.

This is my neighbor's car, taken from one of my apartment windows.

I was driving around on the outskirts of Saginaw looking for features and I took this and the next three frames along a dirt road that dead ends into some of the wet lands south of town.

This is a portrait outtake from a story that ran on this woman originally from Tokyo that immigrated to the U.S. in the early fifties. It was a part of a long term project a reporter was doing on race relations in Saginaw.

This was an outtake from a story we did on this man who owns these old rifles and machine guns that were manufactured at one of the G.M. plants in Saginaw for use in World War II.

Bridgeport High School students cheering for one their star varsity players as the starters were introduced before the game.

I found this tree in Old Saginaw City when I first arrived back in July and I was constantly driving by it while I was there. When winter rolled around i stopped again to get a different season and got this next image.

I was at this bowling alley to shoot a portrait of a high school student who rolled his first 300 game for a weekly bowling column one of the sports writers was doing and this kid just wandered over to investigate what I was doing while I was setting up my lights.

This mural on the front of a little grocery store on the south side of town always caught my eye and I finally stopped one night and got this.

These two shots are just the men's and women's restroom signs in the the conservatory at Dow Gardens in Midland.

This was one of the final frames I shot in Saginaw. It's my neighbor's back yard, the night before I left.

Here are some of my favorite images that I shot during the last month or so of my internship in Saginaw. They go all the way back to the week of Thanksgiving. Most of these were things I found in between assignments, but there are a few here that ran in the paper.

One Month

2009-11-23T00:18:00.001-08:00

I shot a Daughtry concert downtown at the Dow Event Center, I was out in the crowd during one of the opening acts, Theory of a Deadman, and I got this.

It took a little while but Saginaw finally received some H1N1 vaccinations, this was a very unhappy recipient at one of the clinics they set up in a local middle school.

This was an accident, shooting from my bathroom window, but I liked how it looked like a painting.

I covered Devil's Night, the night before Halloween. I was up all night in case there was any arson, but during the early evening I had to shoot a party they threw for kids at the downtown arena to keep them off the streets. This was at a booth where a weird science guy was doing experiments to entertain them.

City elections

Just a sunset I shot by a corn field near Birch Run, Michigan.

A combine harvesting soy beans under a full moon near Oakley, Michigan.

C.P.R. training at a local middle school.

The paper wanted to do a story on the negative impact the term "swine flu" had on the pork industry and they wanted to tie it in with a local hog farmer, so I tracked down this guy in the southern part of the county who got hit pretty hard when the pork market took a nose dive about a year ago. These first two are a couple of out takes, the last one, ran in the slideshow online, he's pouring milk out to bottle feed a calf, he also raises cattle, and his dog Roscoe is in the foreground.

A Reese High School football player on the field after their season ending loss to St. Charles.

Just my bathroom window one morning.

Senior Latin students eating dinner at a banquet they hold every year for all of the Latin students at Heritage High School.

Latin students backstage, some waiting to perform, some just watching the skits at the Latin banquet.

Just a plant on the side of the road, lit up by my head lights.

A dancer practicing her routine for a Christmas production at the Temple Theatre in downtown Saginaw.

Some of the Midland High School marching band drummers performing at the football team's final playoff game.

This woman was involved in a pretty bad accident that was caused by a guy chasing another vehicle and trying to run them off the road.

This is a Swan Valley High School lineman that we did a story on who has Cystic Fibrosis, a chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system, but still manages to hold a starting position as the left guard on the varsity team.

Deitre

Another month down here in Saginaw, with just one more to go. Halloween came and went, Thanksgiving is right around the corner and Fall is still holding on here. I haven't seen much cold weather yet, I'm hoping for some snow in the near future. Playoffs for fall sports teams in the area are officially over, I'll be starting basketball and wrestling coverage this week. Here are some of my favorite images from the past month or so.

Twenty Days

2009-10-25T23:12:00.000-07:00

The moon above my house one evening.

Found this still life in a break room at the Castle Museum while I was shooting painters restoring the windows.

An action figure head on the ground in the alley behind my house.

Stumbled upon some kids biking on the river walk one afternoon and got this silhouette.

Went back to the Castle Museum a few days after my first visit to try to get a better shot and I came away with this.

They opened a new jail in Midland and let people into certain parts to tour the facilities after the ribbon cutting. I was waiting for a shot on the top bunk in one of the cells and this lady started talking to me when she realized I was in there.

We did a fall color feature story and this is one of the images I turned in from a forest just south of town.

Deitre.

From the interstate on the way to the Detroit airport.

This was another fall color feature I turned in that I found driving some back roads between Saginaw and Flint.

One of the gypsy dancers in Zingara, a dance troupe at the Mid-Michigan Renaissance Festival.

Another one of my fall features. This one's from a farm east of town.

Deitre.

Midland vs. Heritage

A butterfly swimmer for John Glenn High School in Bay City.

Nouvel Catholic Central vs. Frankenmuth High School.

Saginaw Township police officers pay their respects to a fellow officer, after the dedication of his memorial plaque outside of their station, who died in a golf cart accident.

Arthur Hill High School vs. Saginaw High School, cross-town rivals.

Saginaw High School players celebrate their victory over their cross-town rivals Arthur Hill High School.

I've seen Fall in full force over the last few weeks here in Saginaw; colorful, cloudy, rainy, cooler and shorter days, plus the end of the regular season for high school sports. Here are some of my favorite images since my last post.

Two Weeks

2009-10-04T23:29:00.000-07:00

Terminal connection tunnel at the Detroit airport.

Skateboarders in Old Saginaw City.

My first time shooting hockey, the Saginaw Spirit vs. the Plymouth Whalers.

On SVSU's campus outside of a building where I was shooting an assignment.

Kids going home for the day at Carrollton Elementary School.

The Learning Garden at Carrollton Elementary School.

I had to shoot an antique festival in Midland, it turned out to be more of a flea market but I was lucky enough to stumble upon these dancers.

The winner of the Tri-Valley Conference Central Division cross country jamboree.

A runner approaching the finish line at the Tri-Valley Conference Central Division cross country jamboree.

Chesaning High School tennis.

I do not usually like the way it looks shooting football with a strobe, but this one came out ok.

Marchers walking down E. Genesee in downtown Saginaw during a rally and march against violence in Saginaw, partially sparked by the recent killing of a 9-year-old boy.

The Midland Dow High School swimmer that won the 100-yard butterfly at the Tri-Cities swim meet in Midland.

I'm still trying to nail a good vertical panning shot of a diver since I can't use my lights.

An Essexville Garber High School swimmer in the 100-yard backstroke at the Tri-Cities swim meet in Midland.

On my way back from Midland I went on a drive through some rural back roads and found this railroad bridge just south of Saginaw.

Flew down to Kentucky for a few days last week, been back in Saginaw for well over a week now. Here are some images from the past two weeks, personal and newspaper assignments.

Pumpkins

2009-09-20T20:57:00.000-07:00

Went on assignment to Johnson's Giant Pumpkins today, kind of a light crowd since it's still early in the year, but they had all your standard pumpkin patch attractions, tractor rides, corn maze, crafts, etc. This is just one of my out takes.

Water

2009-09-19T17:58:00.000-07:00

After both of my assignments today I had to pass by a body of water on the way back to my car, the Saginaw River this morning and a pond on Saginaw Valley State University's campus this afternoon.

Music

2009-09-18T21:35:00.000-07:00

Got a start on a multimedia project I'm working on over Records and Tapes Galore, the last independent small record store in Saginaw. The owners are pretty awesome, they've run the store for 35 years and are not planning on quitting any time soon.

Swim

2009-09-17T20:55:00.000-07:00

Shot high school swimming tonight and you're not allowed to use strobes during diving, so I tried some vertical panning.

Volley Dogs

2009-09-16T20:44:00.000-07:00

"Rusty", a fox red lab who retrieves for his owner during duck season, takes off into the lake after a duck decoy.

Two of Hemlock High School's varsity volleyball players embrace after scoring a point against Swan Valley High School.

Covered two assignments today, "Soggy Doggy", where they opened up a local beach for dogs to play where they usually aren't allowed and high school volleyball.

Dead Day

2009-09-15T18:05:00.000-07:00

Dead day at work today. Here's something I took in an unoccupied office at the newspaper.

Day Off

2009-09-14T19:43:00.000-07:00

Been a while since I posted, I'm planning on doing a daily post from here on out. Here's a shot from the patio behind my house.

Saginaw

2009-08-02T11:45:00.001-07:00

Indie wrestlers Gutter, left, and The Mad Dragon at the ninth annual Altered Skin Revolution in Old Saginaw City.

A fan flashes the metal sign for the band Milligram Smile at the ninth annual Altered Skin Revolution in Old Saginaw City.

Spent the night with a team of paranormal investigators in an old building that used to be a stable and a morgue. It is now an outdoors store and the old coffin holders, right of the frame, now serve as ski holders.

Swing dancers at Friday Night Live dancing on stage for the Rhythm Society Orchestra.

Had to get some shots of a few buildings around downtown for a billboard, one was the Temple Theatre. Got lucky to catch that shadow on the marquee.

A modified softball league game at Hoyt Park near downtown.

Marathon runners passing underneath the Zilwaukee bridge just north of Saginaw.

Friday Night Live.

The grand stands at the Saginaw county fair.

Been here in Saginaw, Mich. for a little over a week now. Started at the Saginaw News the morning after I got here and I have covered tons of stuff so far since I am only one of three photographers at the paper, one of which has been on vacation since I got here. I'm just posting some of my favorite stuff from this past week or so, with a mix of personal stuff and assignments.

2 & 1/2 Weeks

2009-06-09T11:22:00.000-07:00

Out back at the WKU Ag Expo Center.

"Wild Thing", met this horse at the ag farm.

Deitre, the kitten I found few weeks ago.

Caitlin.

Ivy on a tree in my back yard.

Second story of a house on Chestnut Street in Bowling Green.

Deitre.

My roomate with Deitre.

From a garden on the west side of Mass Media at WKU.

An antennae on top of the Academic Complex at WKU.

Walkway in the back of a building off of State Street in Bowling Green.

An apartment stairwell I found in downtown Bowling Green.

A sunrise I caught one morning last week from WKU.

Apartment entrances near Chestnut Street and 12th ave. in Bowling Green.

US Bank on Main Street in downtown Bowling Green.

A metal door in a loading dock off of College Street in downtown Bowling Green.

Downtown Bowling Green, Ky.

Downtown Nashville, Tn.

The Sheraton Hotel lobby in Nashville, Tn.

Downtown Nashville, Tn.

Downtown Nashville, Tn

Someone's back patio from the alley that runs between State and College streets in Bowling Green.

From an alley that runs from the edge of WKU to 12th ave.

Spent the last few weeks photographing landscapes and still lifes around Bowling Green, plus a few from a trip to Nashville, Tn this past weekend.

Western Road Trip

2009-05-27T17:13:00.000-07:00

Found this rottweiler waiting in the driver's seat of its owner's semi at a gas station off of I-40 in eastern Oklahoma.

Sunset off of an exit in eastern Oklahoma, where my brother and I pulled off for a break.

My brother, Geoffrey, resting on top of his car while we took a driving break just off of I-40 in eastern Oklahoma.

Driving through the night, we hit an intense stretch of fog in western Oklahoma and the Texas pan handle which slowed us down considerably due to the low visibility.

Before we hit the mountainous region of northern New Mexico, we traveled through some grasslands where a railroad line ran adjacent to highway 64/87 until we hit Des Moines.

In the high country, between 7000 and 8000 feet above sea level, on the western side of Pike's peak and its surrounding foothills.

A valley we passed while cutting back east to Colorado Springs, by way of dirt back roads, south of Pikes Peak.

Still life of left behind items on the wall of my brother's new room in Colorado Springs.

Luggage carts outside of the Nashville airport on Saturday evening.

Traveled to Colorado two weekends ago with my brother where he is pulling a summer internship in Colorado Springs. We left middle Tennessee mid-day Thursday and crossed Arkansas, most of Oklahoma, the pan handle of Texas, the northeast corner of New Mexico and southern Colorado bringing us to Colorado Springs mid-day Friday. We drove around the city a good bit, saw Garden of the Gods, Cheyenne Canyon, and drove several miles of dirt back roads that led us through the foot hills and ranch land surrounding Pikes Peak. I left Colorado Springs mid-day Saturday arriving in Nashville later that evening. Eight years have passed since the last time I was west of the Mississippi River, it was nice to be back.