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Magazine feature

It’s been forever – like over a year – since I’ve blogged about anything.  But now the new site has been revamped, redesigned and I am ready to get going again.  I am very excited to have my first magazine feature.  I was among a list of contributing photographers who are featured in this month’s [...]

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Zion National Park – April 2012

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve had a chance to update anything to my website.  With both my alter eg0 careers at the ADG and with Weddings, it’s been a slam-packed spring and early summer.  Mike and I did have a chance to go back to our (well my) favorite spot in the [...]

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Around the USA

Whenever I travel, I usually bring my camera….usually.  Sometimes I just like to roam around and not bother with lugging my gear, but most often, I take something with me.  Here are a few of my favorites from around the USA.

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My favorite place

Few places really speak to me.  I’ll admit that I have not traveled the world like a lot of photographers.  I’ve been to Zion National Park twice before I am a heading back there again this year.  Compared to many of our nations national parks, Zion is teeny tiny.  It’s more like a speck on [...]

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Hurricane Katrina: Three Months Later

  As I watched TV, I just sat and cried.  That’s all I could do on that day in late August, 2005.  In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, more than 80% of my hometown of New Orleans was underwater.  Both homes I knew as a child were flooded, up to six feet in some spots.  [...]

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Italy

  Here are a few of my favorites from my trip to Italy in 2008.    

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Baghdad 2004

  I was fortunate enough to spent two months in the summer of 2004 embedded with the Arkansas 39th Infantry Brigade as they were stationed in Baghdad, Iraq.  The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, my current employer, sent a reporter and photographer to cover them for a year.  I was one of the lucky photographers who rotated in.  [...]

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Taste. We all love food.

  I can’t think of a single person who does not love food.  Whether you a meat-eater, vegetarian, or a true vegan, we all share a love of food. Food is one of my absolute favorite things to photography – especially pretty food.  No one likes to shoot ugly food.  Poorly styled food looks like [...]

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