I spent a good part of my week interviewing different people for the 100 Neediest Cases campaign. This is a different type of video than the ones I usually do. Since the Post-Dispatch (STLtoday.com) are partners with Neediest, it’s more of a…

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…

Canon 1D MarkII w/ 600 f/4 lens - iso 800, 1/400th f4.5

I love foul ball photos. I love the drama as a 5 ounce rock falls out of the sky and into the hands of expectant fans. This photo was…

When I was in my late teens, I discovered the sport of cycling. I had a used blue Trek aluminum road bike, with aerodynamic wheels, clip-less pedals and aero-bars. My friend Chris and I would hit the bike trails by…

st. louis final cut pro users group

Los Angeles has one. Hawaii, Dallas, and even Hong Kong. So now, St. Louis is the home to the latest Final Cut Pro Users Group. What the heck is a FCPUG? Basically, it’s a community of…

If you were driving on the Clark Bridge in Alton, Ill, last week between 10 a.m and 11 a.m., you probably saw a strange man spinning in a circle. Well, that was me, and just wanted to let you know…

I got up early one day last week to shoot a panorama of the sunrise, as it peeks above the horizon, with the Mississippi River and the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis. It was going to be a beautify…

I recently spent a good chunk of my nights in my basement building a bracket to shoot panoramas. This first prototype is made of 1/4 inch aluminum and stainless steel hardware. It attaches a Canon 1D MarkII digital camera body…

It’s amazing what a large American flag, hot lights, and a few thousand Obama supporters can do to transfer a high school gym into a stage for the President, who visited Fox High School in Arnold to mark his first…

Recently, I photographed the funeral for a soldier who was killed in action in Afghanistan. His name was Cpl. Gunnar Zwilling, a 20-year-old from O’Fallon, Mo. First and foremost, I can never imagine the heartache that is inflicted on the family…