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…

Last week I stumbled upon this spill of all spills. The intersection of Gravois Avenue and S. Kingshighway Boulevard was covered in shards of glass. Ouch. Of all things to spill, this would definitely not be my pick. Photographing this…

As a photographer, I meet people almost everyday. While sometimes I get to know my subjects well, other times I’m lucky to know their names. On Friday I went to the home of Warren Moellenhoeff in south St. Louis. Warren…

Gaffers tape. Ever heard of it? It’s usually black, but it comes in a variety of colors. It’s used on movie sets, theater stages and at concerts. Chris Martin of Coldplay sometimes gets caught wearing colored gaffers tape on his…

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…

Last week on my way to work I had the radio tuned to the Phillips and Company morning show on Y98. I was suprised to hear a familiar voice on the radio. It was the Post’s public relations manager Tracy Rouch…

Yesterday I had the opportunity to photograph Laura Parrish. Laura’s mother let the Post-Dispatch know about her daughter’s delicious chocolate chip cookies. That’s how I ended up in her backyard, photographing a stack of her cookies. Laura says she has loved…

81-year-old Jean Salrin of JJS Wash owns the last laundromat in Mt. Sterling, Illinois. Five days a week she works from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Unless she doesn’t feel like it, she says. When she answers the phone and…

I had the opportunity to disappear to small town America last week. Brown County has the lowest unemployment rate of all the Missouri and Illinois counties. The reporter, Terry Hillig, and I went there knowing that Dot Foods, the prison…

A few weeks ago I was trying to think of a creative way to light an outdoor, night situation without using a strobe. It made me think back to college when my friend Michael used a giant, super bright flashlight…