Big plays have been few and far between for the Florida Gators the last couple of years. The offense has been pretty vanilla A.T. (After Tebow). It was the defense that gave UF an 11-win season in 2012, not the offense. So getting photos of long passes, exciting runs or anything like that didn’t happen […]
Ok, you’ve seen a photo. Now go find somewhere dry to wait. I’ll let you know when it’s safe to come back to this blog and resume looking at photos. Normally the start of football season means cooler temperatures and long sleeves. Not in Florida. Early season football games down here mean random thunderstorms, heavy […]
Last week marked the 150th anniversary of the famous Civil War campaign, The Battle of Gainesville. What? Never heard of it? Well, it happened and some historians say it was pretty darn important (others call it a skirmish.) Small battles like this one helped the South keep supply (food) lines open after Union troops captured […]
Summer is workshop season for those in the journalism education world. And last week I hung out at the Yearbook Connection’s annual summer camp. It’s a three-day gathering of high school yearbook staffs from around Florida. They decide on a theme, plan coverage, learn some tricks of the trade and get to know each other […]
Last week I was lucky enough to join the Bernheim family in Tennessee for their family vacation. Seven days of board games, movies, card games, sleeping in, boat rides, homemade meals, corn hole and ladder golf tournament, celebrating summer birthdays, power outages, being out of breath walking to and from the dock, trying like crazy […]
I could try to tell you how to go fishing for scallops, but I’ll let a dude named Shel explain. I mean, come on, his name’s Shel for crying out loud. After the video, check out the rest of the photos from my trip out to the Gulf of Mexico on the opening day of […]
Lets start with the photo that sent me to DC. I shot this on the Saturday of Fest, a 3-day punk rock festival in Gainesville. That morning, a group of guys took part in a scavenger hunt bike race around town. At each stop they received a clue to where to ride next. But part […]
Quick tip for those who don’t work for a small newspaper that covers high schools… unless you want angry emails and phone calls from parents, what you do for one school, you must do for all the schools. Good luck trying to cover one school’s homecoming but not another. Or one school’s prom, but not […]
Winners, losers, snakes and a fire pretty much sum up my May. Here are a few of my favorites from the fifth month of 2014. Enjoy!
Back in July 2013 my buddy Jeremy sent me an email asking if I’d like to shoot his April 2014 wedding. To a daily newspaper photographer, that’s forever way. Heck, that’s an entire college football AND basketball season. But I didn’t hesitate to say yes. Here’s my thought process… The Parker Family, in New Orleans, […]