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Photojournalism

  I’ve shot for both daily and weekly newspapers, each has it’s own demands but of course are very much alike. I originally shot for my hometown weekly newspaper while still in high school, this was pretty “lo-key” as far as assignments and deadlines went, as you can imagine. This mostly involved shooting local functions with a few interesting possibilities. One that I remember most was covering the opening day of the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia. At the time it was completed on October 22, 1977, it was the largest arch bridge in the world. Now it’s the third largest, currently ranked behind two bridges in China.  This was my first real photography job. My next job was for a weekly entertainment paper in North Carolina. Today, these are pretty commonplace now and almost every city has one or even two versions available (Portland has two). But at the time that I shot for this weekly (late 80’s) this was something new, a FREE paper that had articles about everything f...

Equine Photography

  Some musings on some of the more interesting things that I've photographed. After I graduated from the university with my photography degree, I went on to a dedicated photography school for a more technical, in depth training. After getting these two degrees in photography, I really needed to work. Preferably in my chosen field as a photographer. So as luck would have it, I was offered a job in the great state of Ohio photographing horses. Now I grew up on a farm in West Virginia and my brother owned horses, so I was familiar with them but I wouldn’t say that I loved horses or had any desire to be around them for any length of time (memories of being on a run away horse comes to mind). But again, I needed a job, this was photography and it seemed interesting – so I took it. I moved to Ohio and started working for a photographer who specialized in photographing horses. I traveled throughout the state shooting every horse show, harness race and rodeo that I could fit into my s...