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 [...]
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 [...]
CLASS V
For those of you who have not heard, I have relocated (temporarily) to lovely Colorado Springs, Colorado to work with The Gazette, the award-winning daily here. It is an amazing photo paper and a great experience for me. It does mean being away from people I love, places I love and the general comforts of [...]
UNCLE WILBER FOUNTAIN
It’s my second day beating the streets in Colorado for The Gazette and I am already having a blast. Here is a little something I shot today. Enjoy! Nathan Murawzki, 4, enjoys the water of Uncle Wilber fountain in Acacia Park in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, Tuesday, August 21, 2007.
IN PRINT: Kevin Kolb for Sports Illustrated
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: Sports Illustrated PUBLICATION DATE: May 7th, 2007 LINK: http://sportsillustrated.com NOTES: This image of former UH Cougar quarterback Kevin Kolb was from a UH home game during the 2006 season I believe. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles as a backup QB behind Donovan McNabb.
IN PRINT: 2006 UH Engineering Annual Report
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: 2006 University of Houston: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Annual Report PUBLICATION DATE: 2007 LINK: http://www.egr.uh.edu/ECE/ NOTES: This has quite a few of my images I made while working in the communications department for the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston, my alma-mater. I did several shoots in [...]
