Bush protest

This is a photo that only made it to the online slideshow from the President Bush's visit earlier this month. As DP photographer Megan Lovett spent her time at Monticello walking with Bush and his entourage, I was left to cover the protest at the bottom of the hill. With about a hundred anti-Bush protestors situated outside his home on HWY20, pro-Bush supporter Jeff Wray stood alone holding up his American flag as the President drove past. It created the little balance needed for that situation. It was a good moment.

Rosey in the Frame

Sometimes reporters and web editors can get a little too close to their subjects. Here's Matthew Rosenberg (glasses) getting audio for the DP podcast at a press conference. Even Rob from WINA nows to stand back a little bit.

Camera in hand

I always keep my camera in hand at all times on assignment because you never know. This is an image I took while following the director of Kenwood down side stairs that happened to be lit by a skylight. This was my favorite photo of the day and it didn't make it into the paper.

Old Skool Revival

So I shot my first concert at JPJ tonight... I was really hoping this milestone would be Van Halen, but they keep not showing up. So instead my first arena show was KID ROCK, former Mr. Pamela Anderson, current "Rock n' Roll Jesus," performing a revival style review.

Big thank you to the security guy up front who gave me ear plugs. You, sir, are a hero.

Remote Camera Sequences

It truly amazing to me that I'm able to capture multiple viewpoints of the same play. If you look carefully you'll see that the positions of each player do not change. I also think it's funny that I can see myself sitting on the opposite baseline in the occasional image.  

Many thanks to Jason Watson for being my sounding board through the learning curve of remote camera photography. Also to McG for his headlines writing skills in todays Progress!

Shadow Play

The best part about setting up remote cameras is you never know what your going to get. After several hours of set up, game action and tear down it was time to view the images. Several cameras didn't fire properly (user error most likely) and there were a lot of images with the referees behinds in them. The ceiling remote produced this image. 

I thought this is really a cool shot. All the efforts are worth it for this one image. 

Ball Head

This image of CHS star Shalita Brown is a classic ball for head shot that makes me laugh out loud.