The Ben Richey Boys Ranch benefited from a fundraiser at Buffalo Gap over the Labor Day Weekend. The Chili Superbowl featured the World’s Largest Chili Pot (500 gallons!), and a number of interesting characters…

I really liked the last one. This kid was practicing roping on a “bull” made out of an old skull [...]

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Sometimes the best photos are ones you almost miss because you’re looking the wrong way.
Tonight, I was under a tight deadline. The concert got a late start, and all of my attention was on the stage- trying to make sure I got something usable, so I could cut out and head to the newsroom [...]

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Tonight I got a call to go shoot the Rehab Dinner Show featuring The Oak Ridge Boys.
I have seen the signs all over town for months, and hoped that I would get this particular assignment. Growing up in Tennessee during the early and mid-80s, the music in the family car was a [...]

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I am driven by two great impulses in my life: the desire to bake delicious treats, and the desire to photograph them.

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As any frequent reader of this site will know, I often take little “photo safaris” around this fair city, where I just wander around until something catches my eye.
Earlier this week, while driving down one of the main streets on the north side of town, I spotted an old sign with so much weathering and [...]

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Who knows?

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Tonight I made some bread from scratch.
When it had barely cooled, I sliced it up, slathered it with butter and topped that off with Bovril.
It took me back more than a decade, when I would run home from the Master Baker Tea Room with a fresh loaf, and top it off with butter and Bovril [...]

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This is by no means scientific, but it’s something I’ve noticed again and again during these Olympic games, primarily during the swimming events.
Check out this photo from a guy in Beijing.
Now, contrast it to this one from the Athens games four years ago.
It used to be that all you would see at the major sporting [...]

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(This didn’t come out so well in the paper, but his license plate holder reads “I don’t drive fast, I just fly low”)
Last Thursday night I shot a story about the local dragstrip and its street-legal racing series. Those shots ran today, with the story, as well as in an online gallery. Check [...]

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