I went to the Orange County Fair the other day to shoot a feature on the annual womanless beauty pageant. Rednecks country boys in drag, essentially. It was pretty funny, the guys were good sports but the light was terrible. And because it was 1000 degrees with 110% humidity I wanted to travel light, so [...]

I shot a portrait of Tim Scott, a football player from Colonial Forge High School in Stafford, to illustrate a story about college football recruiting. In retrospect, there were a few technical details I should have addressed. In particular, I think I should have hit the front of the box with a little  light as [...]

Spectators watch the pig races at the Caroline Count Agricultural Fair. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star)

My coworker Pete Cihelka produced a video from his recent trip to Haiti, covering the relief efforts in Port-au-Prince by members of Grace Church of Fredericksburg.  If you are in town, check out Sunday’s Free Lance-Star or fredericksburg.com for reporter Amy Umble’s story and more of Pete’s work.

I spent much of yesterday in Ashburn at Redskins Park for the team’s first minicamp of the year. One of the media relations guys said he was surprised at the amount of coverage for voluntary workouts. Maybe so but I guess with a new coach, Donovan McNabb in burgundy and gold and a few new [...]

I spend a lot of time looking at other photographers’ work and often see very pronounced aesthetic approaches and complex styles; lots of layering, different ways of seeing and interpreting what is in front of their lens. Done well, I love that approach though done poorly, it can be a cluttered frame that doesn’t hold [...]

UPDATE: I clarified some language here as I accidentally referred to the 2nd photo when I should have been referring to picture #1. It is now correct! -Mike I spent last Saturday covering a tea party rally in Stafford. I expected that there would be a lot of signs and flag-waving as seen at every [...]

I drove up to Ashburn this morning to cover the press conference introducing Donovan McNabb, formerly of the Eagles, as a Washington Redskin. As pictures go, it wasn’t exactly a barnburner, but the amount of media present was noteworthy. I’m told more members of the sporting press showed up for McNabb’s coming-out party than the [...]

For a while I had named this thing ‘Fading the Line’ with the theme being ‘photos from the road’ or my chronicle of my life as a newspaper photographer. As occasionally happens, bloggery fell by the wayside for a variety of reasons but the main one was that I was pretty much tired of looking [...]