Some Mondays are a bit more interesting then others. Today was one of them. I was doing some office work when I heard a fire call on the scanner that multiple cars were on fire at the southbound rest stop on Interstate 5. When reporter Cathy Ingalls and myself arrived on scene we saw a...
My cell phone rang shortly after mid-night this morning. It was KGW Television out of Portland looking for permission to use a photo. This isn’t the first time a TV station has woke me up out of a sound sleep. But to find a file photo that a shot nearly a year ago? The photo...
Tonight was one of the few times in my career that I’ve had the opportunity to shoot swimming in Lebanon. Here is a link to my photo gallery. I really don’t know how that has worked out but I’m sure I hadn’t been there in at least ten years. I enjoyed the first-half of the...
I did not take a count on how many thousands of images I shot in the last five days. From the game alone I shot more than 1500 frames. Included in them were a few behind the scenes shots from the National Championship game For those who want to see photos from the game click...
I really appreciate all those Ducks that sent me their cell phone numbers. With so many people using their cell phones I was only able to briefly leave message for a couple and talk to one. I still did run into a fair amount of Mid-Valley Duck fans while wandering. I also checked the ticket...
In the mass of thousands of Duck fans today at the pep rally I did run into a handful of folks from the Linn and Benton county. Unfortunately with the amount of people at the event I was only able to get in touch with a few cell phone numbers I had. Below are a...
This was head coach media day at the hotel. Every bowl game I’ve ever been at there is the need to gather both coaches together in front of the trophy they are playing for. I’m not sure how many newspapers and TV stations use this but it seemed that the dozens of stills and most...
I think about 4 pm tonight I can relax a bit. I was talking to a fellow photographer this morning at breakfast who agreed that the easiest part of the job will be on Monday during the game. Today I will be heading out to Oregon’s practice and then attempting to hunt down Oregon fans...
Friday was the day for the media to meet the players. Today I will share a few moments from this organized chaos.
Walking out to the airplane on the first leg of my flight to Arizona I realized that we would all be flying on the Horizon Air turbo prop with Boise State colors. Duck fans were not sure if this was a good or a bad omen. However as the flight landed in Seattle we passed...
A look at the three posters that are scheduled to appear in the Democrat-Herald. If you want a glossy copy for your wall click this link. Here is a sneak peak at the Duck posters that will be out in print in the next couple of days.
Late last month I visited Duane Ditchen’s Golden Valley Farms near Silverton. Ditchen’s reception office, in an old barn on his family farm, is decorated with farm implement models and Oregon State Beaver paraphernalia. A few hundred yards away in a grass seed storage shed was bags of seed bagged for sale under the Turf...
