I got bored tonight, so I copied all the cutlines for all the photos I’ve had published in the Abilene Reporter-News since I started working as a freelance photographer with them back in April.
I guess this isn’t too surprising, since every cutline features the words “Photos by Greg Kendall-Ball/Special to the Reporter-News,”
You can use Wordle [...]

Posted in Assignments No Comments »

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 [...]

Posted in Abilene, Assignments, Black and White, ClipFile, Photojournalism, Reporter-News 3 Comments »

(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 [...]

Posted in Assignments, Colors, Life, Links, Photojournalism, Random, Reporter-News, Texas No Comments »

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 [...]

Posted in Abilene, Assignments, Colors, Life, Texas No Comments »

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” [...]

Posted in Abilene, Assignments, Colors, Random No Comments »

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 [...]

Posted in Abilene, Assignments, Black and White, Colors, Life, Photojournalism, Texas 2 Comments »

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 [...]

Posted in Abilene, Assignments, Life, Photojournalism, Reporter-News, Texas 5 Comments »

ATTENTION: If you’re ever out in a private cemetery in the middle of a ranch, and you try to circle around closer to get some detail shots of a 19th century grave marker, please be sure to take special note of the flora and fauna around you. You might save yourself the pain of [...]

Posted in Assignments, Life, Texas 3 Comments »

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 [...]

Posted in Abilene, Assignments, Colors, Published, Texas 4 Comments »

On Saturday I had three assignments for the paper, all before noon. One of them involved driving for about an hour out to this family-owned farm near Cross Plains where you can pick your own peaches. This is a shot similar to one that ran in the paper, but oriented a little differently. [...]

Posted in Assignments, Colors, Random, Texas 1 Comment »