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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 [...]

Well I remember, I remember don’t worry
How could I ever forget, its the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, no you dont fool me
The hurt doesn’t show; but the pain still grows
Its no stranger to you or me

Cue drum solo.
This past Thursday night [...]

…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 [...]

.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 [...]

“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 [...]

Last Friday, I covered my last prep football game of the season, Westlake versus Cecilia. Our region had only two teams in the semifinals, Westlake and Barbe. Westlake was undefeated until Friday but they lost knocking them out of the playoffs and knocked me out of covering any more football in 2008.
During the regular season, [...]

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 [...]

Personally I hate picking out photos to place in my portfolio. However, it is something that is necessary. Any photographer, artist, writer, and the like needs to have a current binder of work at all times. Plus, if you look at fotokew.com it is still slanted towards commercial work.  The last three months have solidified [...]