March 2010

The Greatest Game

March 25, 2010
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It’s less than ten days until the 2010 Major League Baseball season starts up. I love the mixture of fresh green grass, warm brown dirt and bright blue sky. Popcorn and hot dogs from the vending machine. Knocking off work early to catch the start of a local college double-header. Rally caps. Foul balls. The [...]

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2009 West Texas Livestock Show Season

March 24, 2010
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Like I’ve said recently (as in, four days ago), living in West Texas means you shoot some very um, provincial, assignments. Back in January I had the rare privilege of spending 10 days covering 10 country livestock shows. It was an education. Before I spent those days driving from county to county, making my way [...]

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Photo Community Pays it Forward

March 22, 2010

A great article on Adorama’s blog today. A guy bought a lens on Craiglist, which turned out to be stolen. He returned it to the studio it was stolen from, and you can imagine what happened next… It all started a week ago today, when “BucketMan,” an active member of photography-on-the.net, posted his story on [...]

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At least Chuck Yeager didn’t try to kill me

March 21, 2010
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Last night my wife and I watched “Up.” When Charles Muntz, Carl Fredricksen’s childhood hero, tried to decapitate Carl and burn down the house he had worked so hard to transport to Paradise Falls, Sara turned to me and said, “Hey, at least YOUR childhood hero didn’t try to kill you!” She was referring, of [...]

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Brownwood Rattlesnake Roundup

March 20, 2010
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Living in West Texas lends itself to certain kinds of assignments: ranching, wind turbines…rattlesnake roundups. The world’s largest rattlesnake roundup is in Sweetwater, TX, just down the road. I’d never even heard of the one in Brownwood until one of the editors at the Reporter-News asked me to drive down and cover it. You can [...]

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