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…

I am often asked questions about my job while out on assignment. One that comes up often is about our schedule.  Many people wonder if we are on call all the time and how we get our assignments. Here at…

Sunday March 22, while on my way to cover a quilt show I was diverted to a fire at the Pevely Farms Dairy complex on the corner of Grand and Chouteau avenues.  It seems like the majority of fires we…

Two brothers who had come to watch a fire with their father frolic on the grounds of the new Edward A. Doisy Research Center of St. Louis University at Grand and Chouteau Avenues as the the abandoned Pevely Dairy plant burns across…

You know that old saying that people love family photos so much that if their house were on fire, the only thing they would save would be the family albums? Well, it’s not true. And, I’m reminded of that every…

As news photographers, we take for granted the fact that we are regularly up-close witnesses to gruesome scenes: murders, car wrecks and the like. We see blood trailing down the pavement from a covered lifeless body, or staining the deployed…

Click here or on the breath of fire to watch a funky video of fire breathing in St. Louis. Read how I made it below:

I used a combination of my still photographs from a performance with fire performance group Pandora’s Matchbox and…