Vote for the Honeybees – NBA Dance Challenge 2011
It is that time of year again, The New Orleans Hornets dance team the Honeybees are competing in the NBA Dance Challenge but now are facing a worthy adversary this week in the Los Angeles Laker Girls, it’s time for the fans voice to be heard, and I’d like to help out my lovely ladies [...]
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 [...]
2010 The Year In Pictures
It has been a pretty wild year, and I have experienced many things I will never forget, I feel I have grown more in the year of 2010 as a photographer than ever before and I can only hope 2011 is half as good to me as 2010 has been. My photos contain mostly sports [...]
On Board The Develoment Driller II Relief Well Rig
On Saturday August 7th 2010 I was assigned to probably my coolest assignment since I began coverage of the oil spill for my client Bloomberg. It took over a month of trying but I finally was able to schedule a seat on a helicopter through the Joint Information Center in New Orleans to go out [...]
The Source From On Board – USCG Cutter Decisive
I arrived at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport around 12:15pm on July 30th for my assignment with Bloomberg News, for the next 24 hours I would be embedded with with the crew on board the Coast Guard Cutter Decisive out near the source of the BP Deep Water Horizon well site. My flight on a [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
