A few weeks ago I went to visit my buddy Rob out in San Diego. We were headed to Festival 8, the big Phish-fest in Indio, to meet up with more friends and hear some good music. The night before the festival though we decided to head out to Joshua Tree National Park as there [...]

You’ve gotta love nice, fall afternoon light. Now if I could just apply that light to some football…

This picture is pretty dated considering Creigh Deeds lost his bid for governor of Virginia a couple weeks ago but I wanted to put it up here anyway. He was shaking hands at a high school football game and I like how he is isolated amid this group of people. He seemed a bit ill-at-ease [...]

“…those giant presses and barrels of ink and fleets of delivery trucks were never what made newspapers invaluable. What gave newspapers their value was the mission and promise of journalism—the hope that someone was getting paid to wade into the daily tide of manure, sort through its deliberate lies and cunning half-truths, and tell a [...]

I started out the day at Fort A.P. Hill working on a story about environmental stewardship on the base. Jason Applegate, who I discovered is a fellow Penn Stater, took me to a few spots on post including a grove of bald cypress, apparently the farthest inland grove in Virginia, an eagle nest, a low [...]

I covered the Redskins win over the 0-4 Buccaneers yesterday at FedEx. Going into halftime, I was pretty sure the Bucs were about to snap their losing streak but I guess Jim Zorn worked some kind of Zen mind trick in the locker room and it turned into a game a play into the third [...]

I covered the Redskins/Rams game at FedEx Field on Sunday. It was an ugly game; the ‘fans’ started booing their own team fairly early on and there were a bunch of empty seats but the light was ok, particularly if you were working from the St. Louis sideline. Not to mention it was a little [...]

Just a quick and dirty portrait for the sports section. This was taken for the Sidelines feature in the sports section. As is too often the case, I had no idea about the the athlete’s name, school or sport just that Sports informed me that ‘a sidelines is coming in.’  So, in absence of any [...]

“America is not at war. The Marine Corps is at war; America is at the mall.”
A couple weeks ago I wrote about whether is was appropriate to publish a photo of Marine Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard being tended by two comrades after he was wounded in Afghanistan. He later died from his wounds. I posted [...]