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 [...]

I spent a few days over the past couple weeks covering a few area teams trying to make it to the state title game. Sadly for them, they fell short. Luckily for me, it means football season is another day closer. I just need to make it through baseball… On a technical note, the first [...]

Firefighters hose down a house after an airplane crashed into it in Louisa, VA on March 4, 2010, killing the pilot. One person was in the home but survived. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star)

My weekend wishes were fulfilled with a ribbon-cutting assignment. I’m pretty sure when they cut the ribbon I did not look through the viewfinder. Such is the power of my protest of these sorts of assignments. Maybe I should shoot a personal project on the people that manufacture golden shovels and giant scissors. If nothing [...]