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Aggies Charge into Finals of March Madness
Congrats to the Texas A&M women for defeating some tough competition and making it to the finals against Notre Dame. Though names like Sydney Colson and Sydney Carter are popping up as the Aggies make their run, I remember a time when players like Takia Starks and Danielle Gant were leading the way. Starks, Gant [...]
2011 Cooper River Bridge Run
Every year I am suckered asked by my wife to help at her booth during the Summerville YMCA Flowertown Festival. Though it is a wonderful experience shared with over 300,000 of my closest friends, I look for any opportunity to escape. Instead of hanging out at a festival all day, I decided it would be [...]
Fine Young Journalists
Though I left newspapers years ago, black ink still runs thick through the veins. I try to refrain from rushing to natural disasters or adding a cutline to family portraits but it is hard to deny my journalism roots. For example, I was supposed to be teaching Summerville Elementary students the finer points of photography [...]
A City Mourns
On January 8, 2011, a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona shocked the nation. Nineteen people were shot, six of them fatally, by a lone gunman during a constituent meeting with U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in a Safeway parking lot. It was hard watching the news that week as the images and stories came out of [...]
Howdy Holidays!
It is that time of year again when parents line up the kids to take the dreaded family Christmas photo. For 11 years I have avoided this but the bug hit me and we jumped in feet first with our first family Christmas Card. The idea came to me as we stood in the front [...]
Shindig for Charity
I spent an afternoon last November with Victor “Goat” Lafayette as he harvested oysters near Bowen’s Island. Interesting man who didn’t say much and when he did, I couldn’t understand his accent anyways. It was a rough day navigating razor-sharp shells and pluff mud but the photos I made that day were some of my [...]
It’s all for the children
After traveling over 3,000 miles for more than seven weeks all across the U.S., it is hard to come home and answer something as simple as – “How has your summer been?” No one really wants to know, it is a polite question, a conversation starter. Sure, like I want to tell them all about [...]
Hot Off The Press!
I remember the first time I saw my work in print… I was so excited. Granted it was a picture of a parking lot under construction and my editor sent me back out three times before they accepted the image but the end result was so rewarding. I pretty much clipped all my my images [...]
Little Journalists
Every summer for 14 years, I have traveled home to teach high school students everything I know about journalism… it’s a short workshop. Seriously though, I think it is great to give back by giving a leg up to the next generation of journalists. Some students decide newspapers are not for them but at least [...]
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