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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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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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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This time last year, I was still recovering from a whirlwind roadtrip to the Grand Canyon with my good friend Pete, and his friend Brett. We left Abilene early on a Monday morning, and were back in Abilene by Thursday. Almost 2,500 miles in 4 days.
We made it all the way [...]

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A friend passed on this amusing little gallery by world-class photojournalist Vincent Laforet. It highlights what he took to cover the Olympic Games in Beijing, as well as how he packed it.
Just for fun, I looked up the prices for some of this stuff, if you were to buy it new on [...]

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The documentary film “WAR DANCE” is being shown at the historic Paramount Theater in downtown Abilene as part of the 2008 Film Series.
At the suggestion of a friend, I sent in a short piece about my trip in January, with a few photos, to the Reporter-News, and they ran it all as a photo column [...]

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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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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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