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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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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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The title of this is inspired by the cinematic classic, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Back during the 2008 Football Photo Tour, we stumbled across this run-down old Ford that some students had decorated to support their team. Apparently this had been going on for at least a few generations of students, as there was [...]

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Early this morning I had an assignment for a local business magazine. They are doing a feature on a local locksmith, and I got to poke around the shop looking at all the keys and machines and things that go along with cracking safes and so on.
The owner took me into the “junk room” [...]

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Right as I was about to put some burgers on the grill tonight, I got a call about a last-minute assignment. Turns out, this summer they’ve been running a Street Eliminator Series at the local dragstrip, where any street-legal car can rev it up, smoke the tires, and tear off town a 1/8 mile [...]

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Deion “Prime Time” Sanders came to Abilene last night, and I got a call about an hour before he was scheduled to speak at a Boys and Girls Club 50th Birthday Celebration Dinner. I figured it was worth it giving up a few hours of my Tuesday evening to snag a few shots of [...]

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Last Saturday, I had another assignment at the local farmer’s market. The shoot was to illustrate a feature article on things you can cook with ingredients are currently available at the market. While I usually enjoy capturing people doing things, it was fun to do some “product” shots on location.

I just liked the [...]

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