ELK IN THE HEADLIGHTS
Today one of my assignments took me about 40 minutes into the mountains to the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument to tag along on a guided tour through the forest in search of elk or wapiti. The drive up was beautiful and even though they say this is one of the worst years to observe the [...]
A FEW ODDS AND ENDS
Not much going on tonite so I decided to mess around with a few new items. First off, I have been intrigued by the Lensbaby products for some time and since the paper has a few of the newest generation model 3G’s, I thought I’d test one out. Since the paper uses Nikon cameras exclusively I was [...]
MONKEY OFF HER BACK
…or possibly a human. This is Paula Ferguson of Colorado Springs on the scale some 10 months after she had bariatric surgery. In that 10 months Paula has lost a total of 160lbs which her dietitian Sharon Jacobs (right) explained to us was the average weight of adult women in the US. This was a [...]
THE MEMORIAL
On Saturday I got the chance to cover the 2007 Fire Fighters Memorial in Memorial Park. Hundreds of firemen and women from all over the US and Canada came out to honor the 114 fire fighters that lost their lives last year. There was a ton of stuff going on from bag pipes and drums [...]
A CURE FOR A BROKEN HEART
This is cardiologist, Dr. John R.Mehall sitting at the controls of a device manufactured by Intuitive Surgical Inc. called the DaVinci Surgical System. Dr. Mehall operates out of Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs and has been using this rare, non-invasive unit for a few months now. The 1.6 million dollar device includes a “robot-like” system that features [...]
THANK YOU
Cutline: Rachel Craft, 10, writes a letter for her greeting card. Students in Mrs. Ochs‘ 5th grade class prepared greeting cards to be delivered to active duty soldiers for the anniversary of 9/11 at the Divine Redeemer Catholic School, Monday, September 10, 2007 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Today I ventured over to a nearby Catholic elementary [...]
THE COLONEL
This is Lt. Col. Bill Sheaves Jr. (Ret)….phew, I have got to get used to the proper AP captioning of these military ranks, since Colorado Springs is a big military epicenter. 64 years ago the colonel was shot down flying a B-17 Flying Fortress over Paris, France and spent the next two years in an [...]
THE UNDERDOG
Today I drove out to Centennial, Colorado, a few miles south of Denver and profiled a local college hockey star named Brandon Straub. Straub was co-captain of the Colorado College hockey team and was invited to the Colorado Avalanche (NHL) rookie camp. Straub, a defenseman, was out to prove himself from the start as he is a [...]
BALLOON CLASSIC
This morning I woke up at 5:30am and despite being heavily allergic, made my way to beautiful Memorial Park in downtown Colorado Springs for the Labor Day hot air balloon ascension. As soon as I arrived the first wave was inflating. There were tons of people out to watch the 90-something balloons lift off. Not [...]
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK #1
Today I got the chance to shoot the first Athlete of the Week sportrait (sports portrait for those not in the biz) for the Gazette’s special weekly highlight during the school year. The subject was Kory Harnell, a star golfer for Air Academy High School, which is situated on the Air Force Academy base. I wanted to [...]
THIS IS WHY I LOVE MY JOB
Last week I photographed the Ducros family here in the Springs. They fled the lower 9th ward after their home was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina and have lived in Colorado Springs ever since. The kind people in Habitat for Humanity have built the family a new home and I was there to see the family [...]
