Another Look at the Oil Spill Coverage
Once again I have fallen a bit behind in updating my blog, but it is only because I’ve been incredibly busy, and just so you no coverage limits mentioned in my last entry have been removed so it was back to work. Below check out some select images of what I’ve been up to in [...]
Oil Spill Coverage Made Difficult with New Policy
Oil breaches past hard boom that surrounds Cat Island off the coast of Louisiana on Monday, June 14, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill continues to impact areas across the coast of gulf states. (AP Photo/Derick E. Hingle) Are you used to seeing photos like the one above I shot on assignment with the [...]
Saints Get Super Bowl Championship Rings
I have recently been swamped with covering the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and when I caught a break I usually ended up with an assignment for another client, I am glad I had the evening off from the oil spill when the New Orleans Saints received their Championship Rings for their 31-17 win [...]
Oil Spill by land, sea, air and a visit with Kevin Costner
Ok, I know the title of my blog entry today may have you confused, but for this blog entry I am combining recent spill coverage all into one entry. Normally I post a blog following each assignment, unfortunately I have not had the time and have been forced to neglect my regular updates. So since [...]
Oil Blankets Grand Isle Beach, Cleanup Begins Again
Wow it’s been a busy week, and I barely have time to sleep let alone blog, I’ve been adding links from publications of one of my recent assignment through Bloomberg News, as I drove out to Grand Isle for a second time, and arrived to see heavy oil had impacted the closed beaches. I knew [...]
From Above the Spill
On Tuesday I covered by sea, on Wednesday I took to the air with the U.S. Coast Guard in a HC-144A Coast Guard airplane with along with a large group of journalist and photographers to get a birds eye view of the storm. Early in the day things did not look good, severe storms were [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Super Bowl Champs take on softball
On Wednesday night I took on an interesting assignment that featured players from the New Orleans Saints NFL football team playing softball to help out a teammate in Heath Evans raise money for the Heath Evans Foundation to help victims of sexual abuse. The charity softball game organized by Saints fullback Heath Evans attracted about [...]
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 [...]
The Hornets Fantastic Finale
The end to a long NBA season for New Orleans Hornets came to a close last night at the New Orleans Arena as the Hornets snapped an five game losing streak with a 114-86 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. New Orleans for the first time in a long time dominated a game from start to [...]
Jazz drop Hornets 114-103
The Hornets kept pace in the first half, but a rough third quarter prevented New Orleans from completing a fourth quarter comeback as the Utah Jazz kept pace in the Playoff race with a 114-103 win over the Hornets. New Orleans drops to 35-45 on the season, with one home game remaining on Sunday against [...]
Bobcats clinch playoffs with 104-103 win over the Hornets
The Hornets after looking sluggish in the first half down 60-38 came out swinging in the second half out scoring the Bobcats 40-19 in the third quarter and held as large as a seven point fourth quarter lead before falling to Charlotte 104-103. The Bobcats with the win clinched their franchises first playoff birth the [...]
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 [...]
Wizards cast a spell on the Hornets
Just two days after beating the best team in the Western Conference of the NBA in the Los Angeles Lakers the Hornets dropped a game to one of the worst team’s in the NBA the Washington Wizards who had lost sixteen consecutive games coming into the night. The Hornets kept the game close throughout and [...]
A look into Portraits
I wanted to take a few moments and share with my blog readers some of my favorite portraits. The portraits shown were taken during the past two years, I really have not concentrated my efforts much towards portrait photography but now I am looking to book portrait work. I have experience working with models, actresses, [...]
Hornets sting the Lakers
The Hornets once again pulled off the unexpected, already eliminated from the playoffs the Hornets came out strong and held off a late rally by the Lakers to get a 108-100 win over the Western Conference’s top team on Monday night. It was another one of my most anticipated events of the sports year, it [...]
Vote for the Honeybees in the NBA Dance Bracket
In my coverage of the New Orleans Hornets, basketball players aren’t the only thing to shoot, the Hornets if you don’t know already have an incredible team of NBA dancers called The Honeybees. Every March, just around the time of the March Madness of the college basketball season the NBA puts out their own bracket [...]
