Sarasota is not really known for the Spring Break vacation destination as much as places like Daytona are, but it sure came through last night. Siesta Key normally draws in (older, richer, familier (?!)) tourists or students crashing at their grandparent’s condo, but for a few months now it can actually rival the beach towns [...]
I literally made this frame as I was walking out of the Charlotte County Fair with a lame 4-H picture that is always made at fairs, but for some reason the midway drew me in. It was pouring rain and the place was a ghost town. Vendors were sitting around staring from their amazingly well-lit, [...]
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 of [...]