Just after arriving at the office Thursday, picture editors rushed over to tell me that the park next door to the Post-Dispatch downtown office was being cleared of homeless people.

Grabbing cameras from the car and literally crossing the street, I…

“I feel like we’re in Seattle,” said Ed Morton as he tried to keep dry while selling pumpkins at the Lafayette Area Optimist Club’s pumpkin patch on Manchester Road.   Because of so much rain, the wettest October on record, Morton…

Drying out his home after Hurricane Katrina, Nick Louque takes a cigarette break.

We buried my father-in-law last week on a typical rainy New Orleans afternoon.  Nick Louque (pronounced ‘luke’) was only 68.

I brought a camera along on the journey as…

Stand at the corner of St. Louis Avenue and 13th Street in north St. Louis and you will not see a shortage of food.  One of the icons of St. Louis, Crown Candy Kitchen, has served the masses some of…

The last things I thought I’d see this morning while hunting for fog pictures in East St. Louis were Segways. But there they were, occupied by members of the Metro East Park and Recreation District riding down the Malcolm W.…

Sculptor Michael Gard's woven wire dancers twirled in the breeze at sunset at the St. Louis Art Fair in Clayton.

Most photojournalists look for human interaction as their canvas to shoot documentary photographs.  It’s the interplay between human beings that allows…

Last time I photographed St. Louis Blues hockey at Scottrade Center I came home with a black eye.

You see, we often photograph the games through tiny windows cut out of the safety glass encircling the ice.  At right you can…

Just beyond the dugouts at Busch Stadium lie the photographers work areas, known as the photo wells.  It’s a great perspective not only for being able to photograph the players at their eye level on the field, but also for…

UPDATE 12:32 p.m.  Kevin Tate has been found!  Many thanks to Dustin LaGrand of The Judge Group.

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Last Friday while covering the career fair at the annual Missouri Black Expo, a gentlemen with a heavily used handkerchief caught my eye.  Alongside…

Well, not really.

Sometimes pictures can just be fun.  They don’t have to have deep meaning or shed light on world issues.

Such was the case when seven-year-old Miles Dix tried on his new backpack at the Walmart in Maplewood Friday morning,…