Feature hunting sometimes begins with and idea, but most often it begins out of desperation.

Filling the newspaper or “Feeding the beast,” is not always easy.

Finding “standalone” pictures (without a written story) is one way to make that happen. They are…

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…

Well before sunrise last Sunday morning, I grabbed a coffee, turned on the radio and headed to the St. Louis airport.  What rattled from those speakers changed my day.

I was headed to join 22 World War II veterans  boarding an…

August 11, 1985–The scene was crowded during a fund raiser inside St. Louis Centre where $90,000 was raised for the State of St. Louis campaign on opening night of the mall. Photo by JB Forbes

This image of the St. Louis…

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 didn’t know him, but I stood for hours in the cold outside the church where his funeral was held. The air was brisk, but the sun was shining. During the last funeral I went to, it poured. I had…

I walked the Columbus Day Parade located in “The Hill” Neighborhood on Sunday. As I worked I noticed Joel Moss, 7, of Lemay tossing candy from the back of an antique police car. People in parades are generally all smiles…

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.…

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…