On this day, last year, I was snapped this shot of my right foot (again, playing with the DOF on my 50mm 1.4) while waiting in the hallway to photograph some of men I had met through the Innocence Project of Texas.
A few weeks previously, Sara and I had been watching The Colbert Report when [...]

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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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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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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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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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I was in Idaho recently for work, and decided that I would probably never be as close to Ketchum as I was at the moment, so I made the short trip over to see Ernest Hemingway’s final resting place. I don’t think he would be too fond of the town it has become, though.

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A random shot from a horsemanship clinic I was assigned to shoot earlier this week. I liked the juxtaposition of the rough and hard lines of the boots with the feminine name inscribed on the spurs.

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