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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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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Almost three years ago, Canon released the first full-frame digital SLR in a standard-sized body. The EOS 5D took the world by storm and soon became one of, if not the, most popular cameras among professionals and serious amateurs alike.
Last month, Nikon released the new D700, which, on paper, just looks incredible. [...]

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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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City employees Edward Gonzales and Joe Banda help unload a trailer as part of the Fort Phantom Hill Lake Association’s Annual Neighborhood Clean-up. Abilene Solid Waste services had several trucks and more than 15 employees on hand to assist with the clean-up.
Some random thoughts from my notebook- highly unorganized and only slightly edited:
This past [...]

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Isaiah Boutte, 6, and Reese Hayes, competing to do the most push-ups at the Justin Snow Football Camp on Saturday, June 28. Snow, a former Cooper Highschool student, and current NFL player, hosted the clinic for area youth.
I had fun yesterday shooting the 2008 Justin Snow Football Camp. Snow used to attend Cooper High [...]

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Who would have guessed that a set of 6 Andy Warhol signed, limited edition silkscreens, and 4 Salvador Dali signed, limited edition prints, would reside in a condo in Abilene, Texas?
Read the rest of the story here.

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