Post photographer Stephanie Cordle’s food setup-in-the-making using Director of Photography Larry Coyne’s pickup truck.

Want a sneak peak to an upcoming food story on football tailgating? Here’s your chance as Post photographer Stephanie Cordle goes on location — to the Post-Dispatch…

June 22, 1940 — The Admiral is ready for a night cruise

The Post-Dispatch recently published a book on the Admiral steamship, a much beloved St. Louis institution from 1940 until around 1980.  Many thousands of people have incredibly fond memories…

April 1,1933–Marlin Perkins, St. Louis Zoo, curator of reptiles.

Starting Sunday, we’ll begin a new feature online and in the paper that takes a look at some of the important events and people that have figured prominently in the St.…

c. 1932

In the past few months, I’ve begun the process of digitizing old family photos, a process I foresee will take me at least 20 years.  I have thousands of my own negatives from the seventies and eighties, and I’d…

Weather pictures.  I thought of them this evening as I was driving back to St. Louis from a holiday visit in Memphis, Tennessee.  I had wondered all weekend what kind of weather I would have for the return trip, and…

Fill flash is a technique that many photojournalists try to avoid, but it can be very useful in certain situations. The technique involves using just enough flash to bring detail into shadow areas that without the flash would be difficult to…

The past few years I’ve been fortunate to be able to do the picture editing on a few books at the Post-Dispatch. Two on Busch Stadium (old and new) and a third on the 2006 World Series were mostly about Cardinal baseball,…