BEST OF 2009
As we wrap up the first week of the new year I can’t help but reflect on the past year. There were struggles as there are with anything, but I’d be remised if I didn’t sit back and be thankful for the good things. I met a lot of great people, made a few [...]
IPHONE ADVENTURE
Every year Libby and I send out a self-designed holiday card using our own skills as graphic artists and photographers. When it came time to produce this year’s card we had some initial trouble coming up with a fresh idea. After a bit of thinking I came up with the idea of using images taken [...]
CHRON FAVS 2
This is my second installment of my 2 part favorites post highlighting my favorite images taken during Houston Chronicle assignments. This post contains images from roughly mid-May 2009 through this past weekend taken from my Houston Chronicle assignments only. I am a regular contributor to my hometown newspaper and get to shoot all kinds of [...]
IN PRINT: Rio Feature for Pet Talk
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: Pet Talk Magazine
PUBLICATION DATE: October 2009
LINK: http://houstonpettalk.com
NOTES: I shot this feature during my last trip to South America. I was there working on other essays, but decided to explore the intricacies of pet life in Rio for Pet Talk Magazine’s new travel section. I wanted to show that like [...]
IN PRINT: The Dog Whisperer for Pet Talk
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: Pet Talk Magazine
PUBLICATION DATE: September 2009
LINK: http://houstonpettalk.com
NOTES: I shot this image during a shoot with Cesar near Lake Conroe, north of Houston during this past Summer. He was filming an episode of his hit NatGeo channel show, The Dog Whisperer and I was lucky to be able to tag along. He is [...]
DOCK DOGS
On Saturday morning after a Chron assignment up north, I headed out to Discovery Green (Houston’s new-ish park downtown) to check out the Dock Dogs event. It’s a nationwide competition where local dogs compete in a series of events such as longest jump, highest, etc. I saw some other images from similar events from colleagues [...]
IN PRINT: Performing Pets for Pet Talk
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: Pet Talk Magazine
PUBLICATION DATE: April 2009
LINK: http://s49388.gridserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/09_pettalk_04.pdf
NOTES: The image above is of Grover and Shawn. Shawn is a collector of rare birds and Grover is a rare hyacinth macaw native to the central Brazilian Amazon region. Hyacinths are majestic creatures, the largest flying parrot species in the world. Shawn has trained Grover [...]
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.
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 [...]
