IN PRINT: Hanenburg for the Rocky Mountain News
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: The Rocky Mountain News PUBLICATION DATE: August 8th, 2008 LINK: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/27/pressure-doesnt-faze-hanenburg/ NOTES: I shot this image of cross country star Kaitlin Hanenburg in late 2007 for the Colorado Springs Gazette before it was picked up a year later by the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado.
HOME SWEET FOOTBALL
Monday was my last day in Colorado. I returned home to Houston Tuesday morning after 16 hours of driving through some of the most treacherous fog and ice I have ever seen. Although the temperatures have reached the 80′s since I’ve been home, it is very nice to be home again. As an odd twist, my last [...]
IN PRINT: Pet feature for the Detroit Free Press
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: freep.com / Detroit Free Press PUBLICATION DATE: December 7th, 2007 LINK: N/A NOTES: This image of Monty and his new owner was originally shot for the Colorado Springs Gazette and picked up by the Free Press.
MORE ATHLETES
Its been a little crazy around here for the past week or so. I have only 4 days left of work here at The Gazette before I pack up and drive the 16 hours back home to Houston. It seems like it has gone by so fast, yet at the same time, looking back, my [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
$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 [...]
OF PAINTERS AND PORTRAITS
I really need to make an entry about my experiences at the Mountain Workshops, but this one’s about today’s events. The majority of this morning was devoted to sending out my first barrage of photo applications to a tirade of different papers all over the country. With 18 packages postmarked and over $60 later, I [...]
SLUGFEST
I haven’t posted a blog in some time, and much to my surprise I’ve gotten quite a few inquiries to my condition as well as requests to post more. Ive been in Kentucky for the last week so I’ve been a bit disconnected with the rest of the world. Several more blog posts will accompany this one [...]
ROCKTOBER
I love baseball. It’s that simple. I always have. I watched the game since as far back as I can remember, Ive played the game (both organized and unorganized) on multiple continents and have shot the game for a number of years now as well. After interning with the Astros (my hometown team and by far my [...]
TENNIS THROWBACK
At the risk of throwing my blog off chronologically, I am postponing my baseball post until later tonite, so stay tuned…it will be good. Trust me. Today, however, I shot the 4A men’s tennis regionals held at Cheyenne Mountain High School. I arrived at the school around 9am and students were still piling into the school. As I [...]
XTREMEEEE!!!
I had always seen different specials featuring the 4×4 rock crawlers as they are called on different cable channels but never really paid too much attention. When this event was assigned to me I was excited from the start. I knew it would definitely provide a great opportunity for some nice images and a great time [...]
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 forced [...]
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 [...]
