Aptly as the headline asks, how do you feel about tabloid magazine OK! paying $500,000 for the exclusive rights to use a photo some are calling the “Michael Jackson death photo” on both national and international editions?

See the cover here or…

It was a hot day and we needed a weather feature photo.  I kinda liked this picture even though it didn’t run in the newspaper.  It isn’t as literal as a person’s head under a water fountain or a person…

I haven’t watched the BET (Black Entertainment Televison) Awards, or BET itself, since college at least 15 years ago. I fell out with the network as it grew, in my opinion, more and more celebratory of the misogyny that came…

Sometimes photographers have to resort to what we call the “Hail Mary” shot.  Basically it just means that in order to get the shot we want, the camera has to be held out of range of being able to actually…

Early in last week’s heat wave, I set out to make some heat photos in Collinsville, Illinois. I found a man, and older man named Tom Odom, who was working in the direct sun trimming grass around the bottom of…

Ever wonder who picks the pictures that run in the daily paper or on line?

Well it is certainly not the photographer for the most part.

Photo Editors decide which pictures are published.

This picture of the of people boarding an Amtrak train…

Last week  I stopped to photograph Ronald Gardner, 60, of St. Louis sweeping grass cuttings from in front of the home of Alice Bryant a childhood friend. Gardner had cut the grass the day before, but the temperatures had been…

Some reporters and photographers are using the Nokia N95 camera phone to send photos and video quickly to our site during news events. The problem is, the small design of device can be awkward in your hand, and lead to unstable…

Soccer has been in the news a lot lately with the US men’s team beating # 1 Spain
to reach their first ever final of  a FIFA tournament.  South Africa hosted the event. Check out the link below for some really great…

I recently spent a good chunk of my nights in my basement building a bracket to shoot panoramas. This first prototype is made of 1/4 inch aluminum and stainless steel hardware. It attaches a Canon 1D MarkII digital camera body…