Coffee Shops

Hunting for baristas who get poor tips.

Cranes and a 2-Headed Turkey

Lesson learned - only give the paper one photo

Had fun hounding down a location at the Capitol to do this portrait of local celebrity Brigitte Dale who won the 2008 Yahoo! Video Awards Best Internet Personality award.

Intuition and climbing over fences

The National Guard building was devoid of any suitable background for this gentleman who served overseas. I stumbled upon this building a few hours later and it provided the perfect backdrop to fit his story.

The circus

State Basketball

Boys State Basketball is over...thank the heavens. I caught a lucky break and got to use the new Nikon D3 camera and not have to use lights for most of the games. Josh Jones dunking the ball during the Class A state championship match.

Sorry

The cops came and busted this man for selling Salvia (which is a legal herb) the day after a photo and story ran in the paper directly linking him to selling it. The police found some silly law stating that because it is a hallucinogen, it is illegal, then ticketed him and seized all of his product.

Too Many Lights

Lugged all my lighting gear into Omaha Central high school to get a photo of Josh Jones, the Creighton basketball recruit. It was a fun time, and he was more than glad to jump up and down mimicking his idol Michael Jordan. Glad I asked him to come back and do it again after we were almost ready to call it quits as it yielded the winning shot.

YMCA Plea

I had to beg the guys at the YMCA to let me take a photo of them for a Germophobia piece we were doing, but then we never used the image.

Reshoot with Ribbon

Had to reshoot the lemony shrimp fettucini as I neglected to get a close up of the dish and the ribbon.

Naturally Blue

Always a pleasure to find a great colored wall that is lit by a north window.

Messed that one up

I was a bit sick this day and neglected to notice my aperture during this 10 minute super rushed photo shoot. Also, the first time I couldn't lift up my lighting kit up, don't know if this was due to exhaustion or the fact that I put it into a different suit case and added a few more pieces.

Building a Building

What Great People

Returned to the home of a previous assignment to try a get a photo illustrating germophobia. The family was super cool and let me use their beautiful kitchen and the son acted as the model. Would like to return again and do a story on the family's adoption of young girl from Haiti.

NU Hoops

Coach and fans getting excited about NU's bball victory.

Magical elevator

I've always wanted to do an elevator shot ever since William did a real nice one of a football player a few years back. Riding up to the fifth floor to meet this quirky professor, I decided that today would be the day to accomplish this goal.

Fire

Spent half the day doing image rescues for images of a fire that had happened in this same apartment complex a week prior. Ended up not needing to, as another fire broke out there that evening.

Gen. 08 #1

First of eleven portraits highlighting a few of the brightest high school youth about to graduate.

Civil War Cold

Civil War reenactors stood guard outside of the capitol for the commemoration of Lincoln's birthday. Very nice guys and I ended up doing my first audio slideshow.

3 Days of Fun