(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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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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1941 Packard DeLuxe Convertible Coupe:

1931 Studebaker Regal Tourer:

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This morning I had an assignment for the paper that took me pretty far out of town. After my last stop, we were only 11 miles from Dublin, TX, home of the world’s oldest Dr. Pepper bottling factory. It’s a Texas institution, so we felt like we had to stop in. They [...]

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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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