Miss South Carolina...

This Sunday I was sent to shoot the beginning of the week of activities for the Miss South Carolina and Miss Teen South Carolina competitions. The purpose of the assignment was to create an online gallery (you can see all 47 photographs on greenvilleonline.com). While most of the shots were standard faces and people shots, I liked this photo the most because it focused on the crown.

Just a little bit of fun....

South Carolina has some great scenic views and amazing sunsets. Saturday night (I was off of work) and driving home to Greenville from Spartanburg County, S.C., as the sun was beginning to go down. Since I always have a camera with me, I pulled over and began shooting. While this is a 'pretty' shot, it is a welcomed change from a lot of the sports photography I have been posting.

Back to work.

This past Sunday, I shot the the Southern Conference (SoCon) Championship game. I always enjoy a good game of baseball and I think this game provided lots of great opportunities. The game was the final game of a five-day series, so there was a lot of emotion from the players and the fans. It also poured down rain halfway through the game, so I am also including one of my after-rain features.

Baseball season...

The local Greenville baseball team, The Drive, started their season with seven home games in a row. I really enjoy shooting Drive baseball and here are two of my favorite shots from the games I covered this past week.

Working with what you've got...

My work cameras have been in the shop for the past two weeks. Hopefully, I will be getting one of them back fairly soon. Fingers-crossed. In the meantime, I have been shooting with a Canon 5D with a 24-105mm f4 lens. That is it - no more, no less. In the meantime, I have had to shoot all of the regular assignments given to any night shift photographer, including sports. In some way, it has made me work differently the past couple of weeks. I cannot rely on a fast shutter, which makes it difficult to catch all of the high action shots and I can't rely on a zoom, which means I can only shoot in close proximity.

This week I am posting a couple of shots that I made during a softball game. Since I couldn't rely on action shots alone, I shot some little team features, which I liked.

Spot news

It was a busy week in Greenville last week, which included (in no particular order) an alleged kidnapping, a shooting, a standoff and fatal fire. Then on my days off I also attempted HDR photography. I will share more on that in a later post.

So for this week, I decided to show the photograph from the fire scene that ran on the front page of the paper. Unfortunately, we heard about the fire a little late and once I arrived on scene the fire was practically out, but firefighters as well as forensics were still investigating. Even without showing flames, the photograph shows the damaged building framing a member of the local forensics team taking pictures of the scene.

Here is the article from the news: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009303270006

Welcome home...

On Wednesday I was assigned to photograph ten marines returning to Greenville from Iraq. Upon arriving to the marine/navy reserve station, I learned the marines were the same men I photographed practically one year ago on the day of their deployment. In the days leading up to their deployment, Ken, one of my co-workers, and I had been assigned to document the process. The story was never published.

In this photograph David Westmoreland is hugged by his mother Shawna. His sister Kaylie, left, father James and brother Jared, right, watch. I like this photograph because the look on his mother's face. While her reaction says it all, it is emphasized by the reactions of his sister and father.
*Below I am including a few of the photographs from last year that were never published.



Welcome home Ammo Co!