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There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.- Ruth Bernhard

My job has a long list of perks. Covering the arts sits close to the top of that list.
Louisiana Public Radio and the Arts Council produce a series called Crossroads that airs in SW Louisiana on KRVS. [...]

I am at war with the obvious -William Eggleston
Post summer is settling in over south Louisiana. Its still warm and thanks to El Nino we have rain and more rain. October is normally dry but i’ve stomped through the mud all month. Not to mention, the Friday that the heavens opened up and blessed us all. [...]

…words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone. - William Albert Allard

Here’s the latest. I love having every angle on a story covered in print and web. Donna Price, the LCAP’s art guru, put the page today for this past Sunday’s paper.
I opted to not have the audio correspond directly with [...]

Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. - Don McCullin

At last, my spare time has been completely dedicated to rebuilding my website. The chosen design is different from what I have [...]

I like to get emotion in a photo. I like it when people laugh at a picture – or react with tears. A sports image works when people don’t have to read the caption. – Bernard Brault

George Foreman III jumped into the professional boxing ring this past weekend and I was there to shoot [...]

[All photographers has to do, is] find and catch the story-telling moment. – Alfred Eisenstaedt

“One is responsible for one’s own life. Passivity provides no protection”.~ Madeleine Kunin
One year has passed since I ventured back into photojournalism. This has been one crazy year. It started slow but then I relocated to Southwest Louisiana. Hurricanes, helicopters, air boats, and lots of sports– I have relished all of it. My skills [...]

Well, I really did not slack on anything except my personal blog posts.
The holiday season was long and a little boring to be quite frank. I worked Christmas and trying to find feature photos on a rainy Christmas is almost impossible. My attitude was admittedly bad but it was my first time to ever work [...]

 
 
Marcy Tweed emits a perimeter of joy around herself and her vehicle. It is not just Christmas joy but she does use Christmas as an excuse to spread some of her joy around the town of Lake Charles. 
Tweed first started decorating her vehicle for the City of Lake Charles Christmas Parade  six years ago. She started small [...]

Last week, I was asked to help a colleague with our Sunday Talk Section’s “On the street.”  It may seem like a simple task to ask one question to passersby, but I viewed it as an opportunity to get to know a community and the people in it. Also, I think it begged to be [...]