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I’ve been told I need to smile more in photographs. Piss on that. If I got any giddier, they’d kick me out of the news shooters union, for a thousand yard stare is simply the price of admission. In person, I’m almost jovial … ya know, in a morose kin…

  With a Sony F-800 XDcam in hand I headed up to the bluegrass state.  I was shooting for the Golf Channel’s reality show called, “Big Break.”  It was in Lexington, KY that I met up with my trusty audio guy and producer to shoot a profile piece on contestant, Mallory Blackwelder.  The day started […]

How do you tell the local news crews from the network guys at a Presidential Pit Stop? Simple. During the inevitable downtime before the leader of the free world takes the teleprompter, the locals will mingle and chat. Those jet setting network techs, …

I know I said I would back away from blogging for a time…but these comments by former news director Rick Reynolds are too powerful to ignore. I’ve known Rick for more than twenty years (hard to believe) and have great respect for him. I saw him enter the news director’s office with enthusiasm and passion…and […]

Not so very often Man and Moment collide, leaving such an indelible impression he ends up defining a generation. That or he just really embarrasses his future kids. I should know. All of which is why I had to breathe into a paper bag for a fe…