Summer Again Bring Multiple Magazine Covers
I did a blog similar to this last year right after landing my first Sports Illustrated cover, I had been planning to do another tearsheet blog for over a month, as I had several NFL and College football preview magazine covers, but I held off on doing the blog waiting to see if I would [...]
Experiencing NASCAR at Talladega
Last weekend I finally got my first chance to experience shooting a NASCAR event, I admit, I’m not a big follower of the sport and have only casually watched a few races but, I’m not one to turn down a great opportunity, and I’ve seen colleagues namely Mark Rebilas come up big by capturing a [...]
Pictures of the Month – March
In the month of March I pretty much went without a day off, on assignment for MLB Spring Training in Florida for most of the month, I was pulled away from baseball several times, twice to shoot the Miami Heat and another time for a few days to shoot for the NCAA Tournament Tampa Regional. [...]
Pictures of the Month – February 2011
It’s been an incredibly busy month for me, I wasn’t expected to be doing much at all in February as it is a slow time for me with only a little NBA and NCAA Basketball to cover, but in early February I got the unbelievable assignment of traveling to Florida to cover Spring Training MLB [...]
Revisting Super Bowl XLIV
Today I find myself reminiscing on my experiences at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, Fl it will be one year ago tomorrow that I had my first opportunity to shoot a Super Bowl. Being a photographer at the Super Bowl was one of my goals since I entered into the profession, but making it more [...]
Pictures of the Month – January 2011
I’ve been a little behind on updating my blog, and thought I’d add a new feature of Pictures of the Month throughout the year to go along with my regular blog feature posts. In January I started out with the final game of the season with the New Orleans Saints, along with a look at [...]
Summer Brings Multiple Magazine Covers
If you ask any sports photographer where they would like to see there images appear in a publication, you will probably get a lot of replies as “Sports Illustrated,” SI is considered to be the pinnacle of success for photographers and having your images selected for publication in SI is quite an honor. One of [...]
The Saints Sideline Exploding – My most requested shot
On the 24th of January while covering the NFC Championship game between the New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings I was in the end zone when Saints place kicker Garrett Hartley lined up for the kick, the biggest kick of his short career. I did not have an angle on the field goal itself, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PGA Tour back in New Orleans with the Zurich Classic
Well, sorry folks there has been a bit of a lull in updating the blog, why you ask? Unfortunately since the end of the NBA regular season I have not had much work. I was originally scheduled this weekend to travel out of town for Talladega Alabama’s Nascar race weekend, that didn’t work out so [...]
Falcons seventh inning comeback
Today I am going to share with you some photos from the final inning of a 4-3 seventh inning comeback by the St. Thomas Aquinas Falcons over Pope John Paul high school. St. Thomas began the seventh inning trailing Pope John Paul 3-2, and the Falcons comeback began with their first batter of the inning [...]
The Dephillips Wedding, a change of pace from the Sports World
I have been a sports photographer since I first picked up a camera, that is my passion and it is how I make 95% of my living. Over the weekend I embarked into new territory, the job of wedding photography, it wasn’t completely new to me, I had assisted on several weddings and I shot [...]
St. Thomas slips to Doyle
Today, I took on an assignment with Falconsports.org a local online sports publication for the Hammond area High School St. Thomas Aquinas. During the game a 3-2 loss by St. Thomas I decided to find a new vantage point to shoot, so I took out my 400mm lens and went to the top of the [...]
Shaving towards a Cure
St. Baldrick’s Day at Parasol’s was held yesterday, the annual event where volunteers have their heads shaved in return for donations that raise money towards children’s cancer research programs. It is quite an interesting event and one I’ve been part of quite a few years. Every year I come out and photograph the events in [...]
