I've started to look through old takes from my four months at the SJ-R.  I have to say, looking over photos from my time there really makes me miss the staff and especially the photographers I had the privilege or working with.   Anywho the first frame is from a high school football practice, actually the same practice from the offensive lineman portrait.  The second is from a christmas parade in downtown Springfield.     

Shortcut in El Paso. 

Waiting at the airport.

So this is Jaumeon.  Recently he was recruited by a local college to play power forward.  This is the court he has been playing on since he moved to springfield from chicago a few years ago. Anywho, coldest portrait I've even taken.

In the past three days I've had four pictures run pretty darn dark. I don't blame the awesome people who tone every image for print, but I do wish they would have been seen a little better. So I thought I would put them up here. The first image is from a story about a high collision intersection in Chatham. The other is a portrait of a CS8 swimmer, and on kind of a side note pocket wizards don't work that well once the antenna goes a few inches under the water...just so you know. The last two are from a luminaria evening at the Dana Thomas House. So yeah, four dark frames.

At some point in my life I will really keep this up every week.  But for now here are a few random frames.  

My ears still hurt from shooting the swim picture. Its from a story about a 63-year-old triathlete who is competing in the senior Olympics this weekend. Every time I get in a pool with a camera my brain tells me that this is a horrible idea. But hopefully something OK came out of it. The second one is kind of a media event set up. A runner from the Chicago marathon was giving his medal to a child with cancer. But after the t.v. guys left, and I really can't stand t.v. people, I stayed around and tried to get something. The last one is from a national guard welcome home ceremony.