ATHLETES OF THE YEAR
For the past week or so Ive been working on The Gazette’s Athletes of the Year special section that will come out in about 3 weeks. It’s something they put out each year that highlights the accomplishments of 12 (this year) prep athletes that have excelled in their sport for the season. I was handed [...]
IT’S IN THE AIR
Although it was in the mid 70′s here (very hot for this time of year) Christmas was in the air, or at least the smell of trees. My only assignment today was not until 4pm so I went feature hunting and found Arlan, an employee of a tree farm from Minnesota. Every year he packs [...]
FINDING RAE
Today was a rather slow news day. My only assignment was a business assignment about a Best Western motel (formerly The Palmer House) a staple of the Westside for a number of years. From the assignment sheet I learned that the motel had shutdown and a developer has purchased the property and has plans to [...]
SOLDIERS AND SUSHI
Yesterday was a whirlwind day in my life as a photojournalist. I was originally slated to start my Veterans’ Day late shift off with a few photos to accompany a restaurant review at 3pm, until I got a call from our DOP (director of photography) asking me to be at Fort Carson, the nearby Army base, [...]
THE TUTU TAILOR
I put off this story that I was supposed to shoot yesterday, until today, my day off. It was a life story about a lady who is a custom ballet costume maker. It was one of those assignments where you have no idea what it’s going to be like before you get there. Her name [...]
A LOCAL SALUTE
I had quite the day yesterday. I woke up at about 7am and was out bright and early to nab a decent parking spot for the annual Veterans’ Day parade in downtown. With a start time of 10am, I knew that the streets would be on lock down after a certain time, so I wiggled [...]
A HOCKEY GAME IN 29 SECONDS
With a day off I decided to head over to a Colorado College hockey game and do a little time-lapse action. This piece is 29 seconds and is the game from beginning to end.
NOVEMBER MADNESS
Last night was my first time to shoot basketball. That sounds weird. I cannot believe that I had never shot basketball until last night. Although basketball is not one of my favorite sports, shooting it is pretty darn exciting. I was scheduled to shoot a prep football playoff and was elated to find out I [...]
AN A-LIST ACTOR AND A FEW RANTS
There really wasn’t too much to discuss today regarding images captured however I have to discuss the day’s goings on, as it has been a quite interesting few hours. Mondays are my late day so I sleep in a bit and start my shift at 2pm. About 11am, just minutes before my alarm was scheduled to [...]
THE MOUNTAIN WORKSHOPS
Finally a post about my experiences at the The Mountain Workshops! Well last month from the 16th-23rd I was in Danville, Kentucky participating in the wonderful Mountain Workshops put on by Western Kentucky University. It was a lot different from my only other workshop experience thus far, SportsShooter Academy. We picked photo story ideas out of a [...]
$25,000 AND ENGLISH TOFFEE
I was greeted nice and early with a 7am sheet of ice covering my entire car. Needless to say I am not used to waking up at 7am, let alone waking up to 30 degrees and ice covering everything. I did notice that the morning light was just so amazing as I drove to my [...]
