Redlights and Redeyes

There is a fine line between work and play being a photographer, which is what is so amazingly wonderful about our job.  A client calls and asks you to spend a couple days in “X” city, making whatever photos you want as long as they somewhat fit the story.  In general, that is all the [...]

Happy to receive the news that “Jazmine’s Goodbye” placed 2nd in the Best Published Picture Story (smaller markets) in NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism contest.  Check it out here. Past blog posts from the story:  déjà vu, a final cheer, and goodbye.

In retrospect, we should have just driven. The New York Times called about a story Michael Cooper was writing about the high-speed rail system that might be built between Orlando and Tampa along I-4, and pitched the idea of riding public transportation from where this multi-billion dollar project will dump you off in downtown Tampa [...]

I think golf courses cover more square miles than houses in Sarasota, so to be brutally honest, this wasn’t that hard to find yesterday – just had to get up early to do it.  In fact, the hardest part was getting through the Starbucks line to get my Grande Skinny Vanilla Latte in time to [...]

I’m not exactly sure what it is about shooting at fairs that makes it difficult.  Honestly, it has to be visual overload.  Sometimes there is just too much going on to really concentrate on a particular moment – carnival workers yelling at you, a big vat of teen angst and love, unreal smells, ridiculous clutter [...]

Sol Neelman shows off his new Mike Davis edit from the Winter Olympics.  If you know Sol, you know his passion for shooting “sport” not as action that happens in between stops and starts of a clock, but more as a cultural and social event that reveals the true community surrounding it.  He would never [...]