Redlights and Redeyes

A couple frames from a poetry night at Booker Middle School in Sarasota…a creative writing class there has a little poetry jam every month where the students share their recent work open-mic style in the classroom.  I always knew that middle school was perhaps the most awkward age- the body is changing, too old for [...]

Random frame.  Random track meet.

Spent a couple hours covering the 44th Annual Florida Scholastic Rowing Association State Championships in Saturday.  I have never covered a rowing meet, so I really had no idea what to expect.  For a high school event to have professional catering, golf carts with knowledgeable escorts, and someone always thanking you for finally covering their [...]

Ten years ago today, I learned the biggest lesson of my career – and it was my first.  Literally. When the Columbine shootings occurred I was in the tail end of my junior year at the University of Colorado at Boulder in April 1999.  I was struggling to know what to do with photography after [...]

Edmund Fountain did a beautiful job with a portrait series of the men affected by the abuse at The Florida School for Boys, and the location photos are even more haunting.  I can’t wait to wake up to this tomorrow in the St. Petersburg Times.  It is what more newspapers need to be doing these [...]

Second verse, same as the first. I don’t know what it is about this project, but I’m having fun with my scavenger hunt for graffiti cover-ups.  I think I might go insane in some place like New York City seeing these on every corner, but here in Sarasota it is definitely a little bit of [...]