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 [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Reporter-News'
The Oak Ridge Boys Live in Abilene
August 28, 2008
The Need for Speed
August 14, 2008
(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 [...]
Prime Time
August 6, 2008
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 [...]
Change of Command
July 14, 2008
Last week I was sent out to shoot the Change of Command ceremony of the 7th Bomb Wing at the local air force base.
The ceremony took place inside a huge B-1 hangar, and I was quite impressed with the pageantry and pomp of the whole thing. Technically, the change of command (the practice of [...]
Antique Cars
July 7, 2008
1941 Packard DeLuxe Convertible Coupe:
1931 Studebaker Regal Tourer:
ClipFile: FUNDAMENTALISTS
June 29, 2008
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 [...]
ClipFile: Estate Sale
June 27, 2008
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.
ClipFile: Abilene Shakespeare Festival
June 26, 2008
Amy Simpson, as the banished Rosalinda, with Bill Rankin and Emily Savage in”As You Like It” part of the Abilene Shakespeare Festival this summer. June 2008
You can read about this show in the write-up for the ARN.
ClipFile: Taking the Reins
June 25, 2008
Kordia Miller, 11, prepares to ride “Acorn” at the Texas A&M Horsemanship Clinic on Tuesday at the Taylor Co. Expo Center. Students from A&M have been performing these clinics all over Texas for 36 years. June 2008.
A single that ran in color on the front page of Wednesday’s Abilene Reporter-News, a little local flavor for [...]
ClipFile: A-hiking We Will Go
June 23, 2008
Hikers set off on the 8-mile trail around Lake Abilene as part of the Mayor’s Hike Around Lake Abilene on Sunday. More than 50 people participated in this event, the first of it’s kind. June 2008.
Dennis O’Connell of Abilene celebrates at the end of the Mayor’s Hike around Lake Abilene.
This was a busy weekend [...]
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