Irony

Just a bit of irony while on assignment shooting at a house at 1212 Sprague St. in Shreveport where five homicides occurred in a three-year time span.

All Smiles

On first look you might not think that being homeless would be much to smile about, but that didnt stop volunteers and participants in the 15th annual Operation Stand Down Healthcare and Services Fair for the homeless in Northwest Louisiana at First United Methodist Church in Shreveport from smiling. And trust me, I didnt ask them to smile...they were asking me for photos.

Helicopter of the Week

Veterans Day

You just cant beat a good flag photo. Great photos to be made at a memorial service at Southwood High School.

Shattered Saturday

Art Nerio, a photographer for KTAL in Shreveport, got a good story this morning while on assignment shooting some bicycles along Highland Ave. A rock was kicked up from a passing car and shattered the filter on his DVCPro video camera.

Give the guy a raise, sure a $50 filter is nothing compared to a new lens on a professional tv camera!

Ingenuity...sort of.

I called it "ghetto"...I'm sure they call it ingenuity...but in the end, whatever gets the job done. Here we have local media taping mics and recorders to a single light stand before the start of a press conference at the Office of Emergency Preparedness in Bossier City.

Dedication

With all of the weather and flooding we've been having lately, the true dedication of journalists come out when we have to make our way through flood waters to get the story. Here we have Times reporter Drew Pierson making his way through some water in south Bossier City.

Halloween 2009

Why We Use Filters

I was sent to cover Bossier Parish inmates sandbagging in response to rising levels on the Red Chute Bayou. I knew right away my nice clean tennis shoes were going to get muddy, so I was pleased when we got to shoot on the road along the levee. That meant limited mud...or so I thought. EVerything was dry and clean until one of the inmates dropped a bag of sand as they passed it down the line...splash! I was covered in mud splatter. You Saints fans in the area will be thrilled to know my Cowboys pullover was hit...my clothes and my gear! But, that's why we use a UV filter on our lenses...it's nothing but a piece of glass but it kept mud off the front element!

Just for fun.