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…

I spent this past Thursday night running around the backstage area, the catwalk, the dressing rooms, the lobby, and anywhere else I could gain access to for Saint Louis Fashion Week’s runway show at Lumiere Place.  My goal was to…

For the entire month of September, I was on what some photographers on staff like to call “festival duty.”  I worked on Saturdays and Sundays and photographed two or three area festivals every weekend.  I didn’t realize there were SO…

In less than a week I’ll be making my annual pilgrimage to St. Petersburg, Florida, for fun and inspiration.  When I tell people that I’m going to GeekFest, the usual response is a puzzled look and a long pause before…

I was sent out to take a portrait of McGraw Milhaven who has been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Internal Revenue Service for a financial maneuver recommended to him by his accountant.  Milhaven returned the money before…

You never really know what the day is going to bring.  I started my morning off by feature hunting in the southern part of the city and found a few kids enjoying the last days of summer on skateboards and…

Sometimes you get to an assignment, look around, and immediately see your picture.  When Michael Jackson passed away, Vintage Vinyl on Delmar Boulevard held a tribute the King of Pop with music played by DJ’s in the store which drew…

We have a pretty cool job here at the newspaper as staff photographers, but it’s not always fun or glamorous.  I’ve been working as a staff photographer for over ten years for various newspapers and covered assignments like the one…

It was a hot day and we needed a weather feature photo.  I kinda liked this picture even though it didn’t run in the newspaper.  It isn’t as literal as a person’s head under a water fountain or a person…

Sometimes photographers have to resort to what we call the “Hail Mary” shot.  Basically it just means that in order to get the shot we want, the camera has to be held out of range of being able to actually…