I was scheduled to shoot a holiday mantel makeover with designer Paige Gilbertson of Graphic Organic Design earlier this week. Gilbertson brought one of the most adorable (and smallest) design assistants I’ve ever seen, her seven week-old son Oliver.

For the…

Recently we had a photo shoot for the upcoming holiday gift guide. Lucie, a 3 year-old miniature shih tzu, served as our model for the scene with pet gifts.

Quiet, calm and not barky at all, we thought we’d found our…

I have lived in St. Louis since 2003, but until Post-Dispatch co-worker Christian Gooden mentioned Lone Elk County Park as a possible place to look for fall colors, I had actually never been there. I was so thrilled to find…

Recently I did a video on a preschool in University City that planted a
vegetable garden. Preschoolers work in the garden and eat the harvested
vegetables.

As the teacher was explaining to me how she uses the garden…

On Tuesday photo editor Lynden Steele and I were tossing around ideas for different ways to illustrate the heat. I scanned the newspaper and saw that the Humane Society had issued a heat warning for pets, and we decided to…

On the night of our most recent snowfall, my job was to get a photo illustrating the fact that it had snowed…even though it had not snowed yet.  By the time the newspaper comes out in the morning, there would…

A good friend of mine, staff photographer Shawn Rocco of The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, was just featured in Photo District News for pictures taken with his cellphone.  Awhile back I blogged about photos that I had taken…

My colleague Steve Parker, deputy managing editor for news, has posted a blog that asks readers if photo sizes in the Post-Dispatch are the right size. There are four choices—-too small, too large, the right size, and inconsistently sized.

As director…

CSI camera repairman Mike Canis’s miracle box.

Gaffer’s tape is the cure-all for ailing camera equipment. It came in handy when my Canon 550 started falling over like an electronic Humpty-Dumpty. Four little screws at the bottom holds the top heavy flash…

Last week, I was feeling extra ambitious and wanted to shoot the sunrise for a story on Gasconade County. The night before, I checked the weather forecast, and knew there was a overwhelming chance of rain. But I was hoping the…