WWII Vets Visit Memorial In D.C. (Lexington Herald-Leader)
I shot an assignment on Monday for McClatchy-Tribune Information Services that got picked up on the front page of the Lexington Herald-Leader and on their website. It was a cool assignment about a group of more than 100 World War II veterans from Kentucky as they visited the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Monday as part [...]
Memorial Day 2011
Another long hot Memorial Day weekend has come and gone. Why is it always seem to be unbearably hot on this weekend? The holiday began for me on Thursday when for the first time I went to photograph the “Flags-in” ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. For the past 40 years, the 3rd U.S. Infantry or [...]
Memorial Day 2010 in Washington D.C.
I just finished covering the Memorial Day weekend in Washington, D.C. There is always a lot going on in the Nation’s Capital during this holiday. But is it actually a holiday? We do get a day off from work like any other holiday. People all over the country spend the day at picnics or at [...]
Marching on “Imperialism”
On the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, protestors marched from Lafayette Park across from the White House through downtown Washington D.C., Saturday carrying flag-draped cardboard coffins and signs calling for thto end to all wars and to “Indict Bush Now.” More images from the demonstration including the Arlington Midwest exhibit on the National [...]
Sleeping Cadets (Redux)
Back in October when I as redesigning my website, I posted a photo I had taken from a graduation ceremony at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. It was a bit of an amusing photo of non-graduating cadets in the audience and some of them had nodded off to sleep. Funny, but not uncommon at [...]
Veterans Day Tribute
This is a collection of images that I have taken over the past several years. I thought I would post them as a tribute to our veterans on Veterans Day.
Fallen Marine
One of the hardest things to have to shoot as a newspaper photographer is a funeral. Even harder can be going to the home of a fallen soldier to do photos of the grief-stricken family. It is a bit easier when you are accompanied on the assignment with the writer. They kind of act as [...]
