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 [...]

I recently wrapped up the winter All-Area sportraits. Of the bunch, I was really happy with this one of Avery Green, a basketball player for Courtland High School. He was fun to work with and was interested in the process of his portrait.  As I was writing this and looking at the other 6 photos [...]

The other day I heard the news that rock-n-roll photographer Jim Marshall passed away in his sleep. I’m guessing a lot of people don’t recognize the name but you definitely know his images – Johnny Cash flipping the bird, Pete Townsend at Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and on and on and on. He was [...]

Just a pretty scenic near Lake Anna in Spotsylvania on my way back from Louisa County High School for the last of my winter sportraits.  I liked passing through the little town of Mineral as there is a tasty little barbecue shack there. Or at least there was – apparently it changed hands. So no [...]

It’s that time of year again – All-Area sportraits!  Every season after herding high school kids cats and hauling a bunch of gear to various high schools around the area I swear I am not doing the next one. Yet somehow the sports editor always makes the assumption I’ll be doing it and somehow it just [...]

I was shooting in a hair salon today and saw this on the wall. Would things have been different if I had better hair and a Leica? I wonder…
On a slightly related note, I wonder why in all these pharmaceutical commercials, particularly those aimed at lifestyle drugs and things for the elderly, the character in [...]