Redlights and Redeyes

Generally, I try to keep the blog self-serving.  I might have 2, perhaps 3, readers (thanks mom, dad, and refresh browser).  I’m sitting here at 6:00am in my boxers with my daughters watching “Yo Gabba Gabba” on a flatscreen television.  I can go to the fridge and choose between bottled water, the filtered water out [...]

Florida never ceases to amaze me.  Just when I think I have been around long enough to know my state, a story comes along that make me go, “really?”  That happened when I got a call from The New York Times last week about tropical fish farming being hit hard by the recent freeze we’ve [...]

So on Saturday it snowed in Florida.  Not really snow per se, but some sort of non-wet rain that feel to the ground as a solid.  It looked more like the crushed ice you get out at a local diner with your sweet tea that makes you wish everyone had that kind of crushed ice. [...]

On the surface, very cool assignment.  In the end, very cool assignment.  Everything in between?  Absolutely insane. I was sent out to cover some of our bars here in downtown Sarasota which the paper was dubbing “hot spots.”  Most of the night was spent holding cameras over my head trying to wade through a crowd [...]

Man, ever since I left Colorado, I think my blood has thinned and I have absolutely no tolerance for the cold anymore. I was sent up to Dover to photograph the freezing temps here in Florida for The New York Times at 5:00am, pretty crazy watching the sun come up over a completely iced over [...]

Photos from New Years tend to be nothing new:  fireworks, kisses, glowing (enter year here) glasses, wide crowd shots, confetti, half-drunk people mugging for the camera, etc., etc., etc.  That is all well and fine, but when you have to do it at 7:00pm to make deadline, it makes it a little more challenging to [...]