On Assignment – Motion
This weeks assignment for studio lighting class was to photograph motion. So long as we used a human as our main subject and shot it in the studio, the rest was up to us.
Once again, as soon as I got the assignment sheet I started writing things down. I wrote down the the [...]
On Assignment: One Light
It’s always a good idea to write things down. For our assignment this week in Advanced Studio Lighting we were restricted to ONE light. The subject had to be editorial in nature and was required to be photographed in the studio on campus. I will admit, I felt like my hands were tied going into [...]
Breckenridge, Colorado
Would you hike to 13,000…
To ski this… I did
Part of Breckenridge’s peak 9 extreme terrain, skiing the Snow White bowl begins with hiking from the top of the highest chair lift in North America, the Imperial express [...]
3 days in Rome
After three days in Rome, it’s good to be home to some wireless internet, working electrical outlets, and Coke that doesn’t cost $4.50.
Our first day we arrived at 7:53am and had a whole day ahead of us (despite being up for 16 hours already). We headed first to our hotel located on Via Nazionale and [...]
Rome: Mobile Update
For the first time in three days I’ve found some unlocked wifi. This city is really in need of some wireless Internet. It’s been a great few days so far and the weather has been pretty good. Here are a few pictures from my iPhone. We are miles away from the hotel where my [...]
The year in News
2009 was a busy year for me. I began by photographing my first inauguration as President Barack Obama took office in January. It was the first time in my life that I have seen a president in person. As the second half of my junior year got underway I photographed a fire on 13th Street [...]
Off Days
You may have noticed things have been quiet for a few weeks here on the site. I’ve had some visitors and taken a few trips to the mountains. Luke Sharrett came and visited me the last week in July and my sister Kate came all the way from France to visit before heading back to [...]
The Blue Angels
This is a terrible compression but I’m working on it. The Blue Angels visited Seattle a few weeks ago and I was shooting stills for the paper. I shot the stills below with a 400/2.8 handheld (a monopod is pretty much useless when your subject is in the sky). I did a little video for [...]
Outtakes
In addition to my recently added Pages post, there are a lot of pictures that I shoot each week that never see the light of day. Instead of making a bunch of individual posts, Outtakes will be the place for my extra work that didn’t make the print addition or the web. In order to [...]
People and Places
The past week I spent a lot of time away from the computer. Away from the internet, facebook, twitter, my website, iPhone photo’s of the day, and the list goes on. Starting July 4th I’ve been working lots and lots of hours and shooting a lot of assignments which you can see in my pages [...]
Lines Only
While working on regular assignments for the paper, I also am responsible for shooting “LO’s” or Lines Only. Stand along features or otherwise nice pictures that can run in the paper in the event that a story falls through. They rarely use them but they sure are fun to shoot. Most of them I have [...]
Why Not
I shot some cool video over the past couple of day. It’s too painful to keep it tucked away on the harddrive and not let it see the light of the world wide web. The 5D never fails to amaze me from night motorcycle rides to lightning storms in South Dakota. I hope you enjoy [...]
Road Trip: Headed to Seattle
I have been ready to write this post since the day I found out I was going to be the photojournalism intern at the Seattle Times this summer. Things are packed and ready to go for our long drive. Where would I be without my Dad who helped me buy a new car for our [...]
Pages
Welcome to pages. My home on the site for checking the content that I have in the newspaper. I am currently an intern for The Seattle Times. In addition to all my other posts that I keep updated daily, pages is the home for seeing how my work played in the print edition. All content [...]
Welcome to the infield
Derby day last weekend my assignment was to gather and produce a multimedia piece on the infield at Churchill Downs. It had to be live on the web at 3:00pm. The infield gates open at 8:00am with people running through the tunnel to claim their spot on the fence line to get a good view [...]
The 135th Kentucky Derby
What an amazing race the derby was this year. I spent most of derby day gathering and producing a multimedia piece on the infield that I will post tomorrow.
Fast and the Furious star Tyrese Gibson (blue) was my celebrity sighting for the day. Michael Jordan was right behind him but didn’t come up to [...]
The 135th running of The Kentucky Oaks
Images from the day at Churchill Downs. A few shots and features from the beginning of the day, and then the winner of the Kentucky Oaks celebrates his victory on the way to the winners circle.
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear greets derby guests.
Jockey Calvin Borel make’s his way to the winner’s circle after winning [...]
1/4000 @ f/4: The roadsides of Jamaica
Finally back in the US after a great weekend trip to Jamaica. It was a great trip that I took with my photojournalism professor James Kenney and a group of hydrogeologists from Western. The Jamaican government needs help with finding the source of the water pollution and WKU’s Hoffman Environmental Research Institute was called in [...]
H20: Nature’s Fundamental Resource
The mission of Hoffman Environmental Research Institute is to be a leader in basic and applied research that aims to better understand landscape/atmosphere/water/human interactions. The Institute involves post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students in all aspects of this work to increase their critical thinking skills and technical expertise in the environmental discipline, and in combination with [...]
Made you look
Hopefully you enjoy this 30 seconds or so of fun that took place in the studio tonight. I’m working on lighting interviews with the Canon 5D Mark II for an upcoming project that I will be working on and I can’t believe how many times I have heard people trying to tell me about what [...]
Loving Isaiah
Surviving Apert’s Syndrome
Love. As I began this week looking for a picture story on love, Isaiah was not the first idea in my head. To be honest, the idea wasn’t even on my short list. I had two stories fall through this week before asking Isaiah’s parents to let me into their lives. I met [...]
Photo Story #2: Immigration
This week’s assignment was immigration. I found an incredible family that let me into their lives for the week. The Sierra family is from Mexico and have been living in the U.S. for ten years. The father of the family, Genaro was my main focus. He is a hardworking and loving father. Mr. and [...]
Baseball Trailer
After an interesting night of filming baseball at Western I came back with this. My good friend and fellow photographer Luke Sharrett and I plan on producing a project on WKU’s baseball team. They are currently undefeated in the Sun Belt conference. This is just a trailer for the video but I would love to [...]