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Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. – Imogen Cunningham
Collecting tear-sheets is a task I often forget to do. It takes more time if you don’t collect them as you go along. Add that to my revised list of New Year Resolutions. Below are the year end tear-sheets [...]

A technically perfect photograph can be the world’s most boring picture. – Andreas Feininger
The end of 2009 marks my first full year in Lake Charles.
My employment with the American Press began in June of 2008. My first six months were swamped by Ike and Gustav. Hurricane coverage buffed the newbie shine off my forehead.
January 2009 [...]

.If you get an opportunity in photography you have to grab it – they don’t come along that often. When you get the chance of a great picture, you have to identify that quickly and make the most of the situation. Whatever age you are you can do that. Even with luck, you will still [...]

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

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography. – George Eastman
I own 4 external hard drives. All are full of photos. In the process of updating my website, I have been filing through [...]

This post falls under the heading, OMG (OH My Goddess).  Thanks to my editor, I did some work for Associated Press (AP). Call me a geek but seeing my name on the USA Today website and the MSNBC webside made me jump for joy and totally “geeked” me out! The assignment, itself was interesting. Not [...]

Sunday’s Life cover featured a package I shoot on a local 4-H champ. Kesley won the barrel-racing “hat trick”, takeing parish, regional, state, and southern honors in that sport. Click here to view the multi-media package.
Also I have been busy adding content to the American Press Photo Blog so it can be promoted. Click here [...]

click here to find my hurricane Ike Post