I used to regularly shoot pictures for weekly bar reviews that ran in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Get Out section, now called GO! Recently I was digging through some old folders on a hard drive looking for something else and…

Have you ever seen that cartoon drawing of a stork that ’s trying to swallow a frog. The frog is in the stork’s mouth, but it is reaching out and strangling the stork. The caption said something like “Never Say…

I was scheduled to shoot a holiday mantel makeover with designer Paige Gilbertson of Graphic Organic Design earlier this week. Gilbertson brought one of the most adorable (and smallest) design assistants I’ve ever seen, her seven week-old son Oliver.

For the…

Patience. Pain. These were the two words that came to mind while I was walking around the tattoo expo last Friday.  Two words that also reveal why I don’t have any tattoos.  This was my first year covering the event…

Today wraps up my four weeks of working the 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. photo shift. I’ve learned a lot in the past four weeks. I’ve discovered new coffee shops, made friends with police officers and gotten to know the…

While officially dressed as a Rennaisance maiden, Jenna Stack, a Parkway North senior, looked the part of Disney's Ariel. Her classmates in teacher Allison Ramsaroop's 'Masterpieces' class, learned about chivalry through acts of service at the Creve Coeur school.

Just before…

I was so encouraged by the photos I took of the foggy St. Louis riverfront Monday night that I couldn’t help but stop and take more from the McKinley Bridge Wednesday night. I’ve been waiting for the right opportunity. The…

Fog photos have always had an appeal to me. The trouble is trying to capture the right exposure and the mood of the moment. I was searching for a feature photo for the paper Monday afternoon and not having much…

I was once fortunate enough to visit Japan. On a trip from Tokyo to the Mount Fuji area, I stayed at a very nice hotel. The room was plush with exquisite Japanese decor. So much, in fact, that the foyer…

Feature hunting sometimes begins with and idea, but most often it begins out of desperation.

Filling the newspaper or “Feeding the beast,” is not always easy.

Finding “standalone” pictures (without a written story) is one way to make that happen. They are…