While on assignment this fall season, I’ve happened upon more insects in a relatively short period of time than I ever have before. Each time, I’ve been compelled to shoot photographs of them. There is no finer format to showcase…

I recently came back from two weeks of vacation. I took the family to Phoenix to see my mother. During the trip, we all drove up to the Grand Canyon. It was my first time seeing it, so I was…

I was assigned to cover professional boxing, which does not come along very often in St Louis. For our sports section coverage, I was told to focus on a bout between Deandre Latimore, a hometown favorite, and Sammy Sparkman of…

The day before the MLB All-Star Game in St. Louis at Busch Stadium, I was sent to the Riverfront Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown St. Louis to cover the myriad of press conferences that lead up to the big game. First,…

Recently our entire photo staff worked on a huge Cardinals project in anticipation of Major League Baseball’s All Star Game being played here in St. Louis at Busch Stadium. My part of it involved interviewing and photographing a man who grew…

There are heroes all around us.

I was covering a fire that was started when the disgruntled son of a resident at St. Sophia Health and Rehabilitation Center drove a car through the front door of the Florissant facility early on the…

We all know what these mean when we see them. They usually mark the spot where someone died…perhaps needlessly. This one stands in the 4100 block of Page Blvd. between Whittier and N. Sarah Streets. It appears to be relatively…

Dig those threads!!

I found this Polaroid of my parents several months ago. It obviously has clear elements that date the photo: like the fundraiser for Congressman William (Bill) Clay they were attending. And the outfits, which are undoubtedly the most eye-catching…

I’m not a particularly morbid person. I don’t usually find anything interesting about shooting pictures like that for this blog post. But recently, morbidity came looking for me.

A couple of weeks ago, I was waiting for the right elements to…

Once in awhile, all of us come across those moments when you think, “I wish I had a camera now.”  One of the benefits about carrying a camera for a living is that when you see something peculiar, (and have…