Cleaning up the marsh in Cocodrie, Louisiana
I was back on assignment for the oil spill on Tuesday, this time it was a 2 1/2 hour drive to a small fishing town of Cocodrie, Louisiana where I would get to take my first ever air boat ride, this oil spill seems to certainly be providing me a lot of first as a [...]
New Orleans Saints OTA’s Underway
The New Orleans Saints 2010 season is officially underway as the team has begun a series of OTA’s or Organized Team Activities at the team’s practice facility in Metairie, Louisiana. Today was the first day the media was allowed to attend the practice session and I was hoping despite the heat that the team would [...]
Oil Spill hits the beach
After about twenty days away from coverage of the oil spill I was back on assignment with Bloomberg News of Tuesday, well at least for a day. In my previous coverage I really hadn’t personally seen the oil impact an area, as the oil had stayed off shore, this time I found oil and it [...]
Louisiana Lafayette knocks off Texas A&M in softball regional
On Sunday my assignment for Texas A&M softball continued as they reached championship Sunday against Louisiana Lafayette, but in order to win the regional tournament the Aggies would have to beat the Ragin’ Cajuns twice. In the end Louisiana Lafayette needed just one game on Sunday and eliminated Texas A&M with a 6-1 win over [...]
Texas A&M remains alive, eliminates LSU in Regional
This weekend I have the fortune to work for the University of Texas A&M who needed a photographer to cover the weekend NCAA Regional softball tournament hosted by LSU at Tiger Park. Today was my first time working directly for a university, but I have worked for some high schools, and basically the coverage would [...]
Championship Sunday – 5A Baseball
It was a crazy Sunday, I was scheduled to shoot the 5A Baseball state championship game at Turchin Stadium in New Orleans at 10am. I awoke in the morning to a torrential down pour at my home in Hammond, Louisiana so I switched on the TV to check the news, and saw a live interview [...]
STA – Spring Football
On Thursday I spent the evening shooting some high school spring football at St. Thomas Aquinas in Hammond, La. I was shooting for the high school website and the photo below pretty much depicts how the game went for the St. Thomas Falcons. I understand my photo created a bit of a stir with a [...]
Soldiers Welcomed Home
I had the day off yesterday and was enjoying the day by visiting a friends house when I unexpectedly got a call from a photo editor with The Advocate Newspaper of Baton Rouge to go to cover the arrival of some Louisiana National Guard soldiers that were returning from deployment in Iraq. I had never [...]
Covering a disaster
I am primarily a sports photographer, but last week a great opportunity came about for me to cover a breaking news story, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the explosion and collapse of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig. At first the news was the tragic story of 11 missing workers [...]
