I was on the photo desk Sunday night and scanned through the World Series photos. I couldn’t help but notice that there were several nice moments in the game that were captured by different photographers. There are usually dozens of…

Trick or treaters are gathered for a Halloween celebrations on the North Lawn of the White House, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009 in Washington. The first family welcomed more than 2,600 children from Washington, Maryland and Virginia schools, and their families,…

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…

Today I covered a high school football game in Breese Ill. The last 20 minutes of my drive I enjoyed a beautiful yellow sunset through the rear view mirror of my car. I kept hoping I would get to my…

This afternoon Post-Dispatch sports photographer and my good friend Chris Lee married his girlfriend Anja Fuchs. The couple met seven years ago at the Upper Limits rock climbing gym. I’ve never seen him so happy and it was a honor…

See the little second story window between these two men? I’m going to enlarge that area so that you can see what I saw. Maybe you will see an image in the window. Maybe you won’t.

I am generally not a…

“I feel like we’re in Seattle,” said Ed Morton as he tried to keep dry while selling pumpkins at the Lafayette Area Optimist Club’s pumpkin patch on Manchester Road.   Because of so much rain, the wettest October on record, Morton…

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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…

I didn’t know him, but I stood for hours in the cold outside the church where his funeral was held. The air was brisk, but the sun was shining. During the last funeral I went to, it poured. I had…