August 11, 1985–The scene was crowded during a fund raiser inside St. Louis Centre where $90,000 was raised for the State of St. Louis campaign on opening night of the mall. Photo by JB Forbes

This image of the St. Louis…

For years I’ve loved entering the World Press Photo contest for the simple fact that it’s free and you get a free book containing all of the winning photographs just for submitting your entries.  However, the one thing that always kind…

Photo Mechanic browser window for St. Louis Fashion Week edit.

What’s the best photographic workflow for a newspaper photojournalist? We could go back and forth for hours on that question, and everyone here in the photo department would have a different…

Mountain Workshops 2009 in Murray, Kentucky

The Mountain Workshops will begin in a week, this year in Murray, Kentucky. Each year, a small army of photographers invade and document a small town in Kentucky. The workshop is organized by the folks…

Dancing Rabbit is an ecovillage that has about 50 people located in rural northeastern Missouri. Their goal is to live ecologically sustainable and socially rewarding lives.

My editor called me and asked if I wanted to go. “I think this will…

After months and months of speculation Canon has finally announced the specs for their new professional camera.  The best I can offer is a list of links that have more information then I have, but here are some highlights.

–ISO 102,400(I’ll…

I spent this past Thursday night running around the backstage area, the catwalk, the dressing rooms, the lobby, and anywhere else I could gain access to for Saint Louis Fashion Week’s runway show at Lumiere Place.  My goal was to…

The Big Picture from boston.com always has some cool displays of photos.   But they had a great idea for a gallery of photos to mark the one year anniversary of Hurricane Ike.  Make sure you click on the photos to…

For the entire month of September, I was on what some photographers on staff like to call “festival duty.”  I worked on Saturdays and Sundays and photographed two or three area festivals every weekend.  I didn’t realize there were SO…

I recently ran across this video by Radio Lab about “Moments.”

“How would you define a moment?”

If you’ve ever heard a group of photographers sitting around talking about their craft or editing their work I’m positive that…