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Favorites of 2011

At the end of the year, many “best of” contests roll around. This year has been no different. It requires you to go back through all of your work to find those few images that stand out from the crowd. The problem with this is that some images are personally significant because of challenges and problems that were overcome to make the photograph. Those don’t win contests. The judges don’t see the back story. Here are a handful of images […]

Politicians and the POTUS

Every photojournalist has to photograph politicians at some point. It is one of the few things we newspaper folk can actually count on.  It doesn’t matter where you live and work. One day you can be out shooting a high school basketball game and the next you can be photographing the President meeting with the mayor of Small Town U.S.A. I’ve photographed my fair share of politicians over the past few months. While I was in between full-time jobs, one […]