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>The Coolest Assignment I Ever Had

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As I mentioned earlier, I bought a new film scanner. After I hooked up I wanted to see how it worked with chromes. I had a couple pages from my Belize trip sitting in my office that I had never scanned.

I originally went down there to shoot travel photos for website that specializes in travel to Ambergris Caye, Belize. While I was there a Medical School would be having a graduation. The guy who hired me had told his contact at the university headquarters in Maine that I would be there for shooting for him. She saw an opportunity and hired me to shoot their graduation for their publications.

So, on top of free travel and resales to travel magazines, I was paid goood money to shoot this ceremony that lasted about two hours. It was a pleasure.

Anyway, here's a image from that shoot. I really need some more assignments like that...soon!

>Papa

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I just bought a Canon 8600F scanner to scan film, but it scans prints too so went through my massive print collection and found some prints that I have no idea where the negs are. I think it makes a good scan. This one is of my grandfather, who died in 1998. I shot this probably 15-years-ago. I miss him a lot.

>Cole's First Goal in the First Game of the Season

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That's what is. It was cool to see. Plus, I just happen to be shooting it with a 400/2.8 and a 1.4x teleconverter. Which, is kind of funny to see the other parents stare at me with such an obnoxiously large lens. I always think their thinking, "That dude really takes his kid photos serious."

>Heads Up!

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Today, I took Cole to a taxidermy shop I shot an assignment at a few months back. We saw mounts of a baboon, zebra, polar bear, fox, lion and a the usual bears, deer and elk, and bighorn sheep.

I've added a few more images from the taxidermy shop.

>Always Shoot the Baby

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I started out with photography at a very young age, and I've always photographed babies that happen to cross my path.

When I was in 7th Grade I actually owned a Rollieflex. I didn't really know what it was but I bought it for $100 (it turned out to be worth much more than that). A friend of my mother's came over to the house with her 1-year-old baby. I shot a roll of black and white. It was a real turning point for me. I got most of them sharp, the light was good and the photos turned out really well. It was my the first shoot that actually worked well for me.

My mother told me a story recently about that child. Twenty-five years later the child in that photograph is dead. He was in the Marine Corps and in Iraq. He was killed in combat. His mother said that photo I took as a seventh grader has always been special to her. Of all the photos she has of him, that's the one she carries in her wallet.

That story really made me realize how important photos are to us.

Yesterday, I shot this photo of little Sophie. She was at Carrie's mother's house. Her grandfather his holding her up.

>The Best of Photojournalism - Photo Editing Team

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My boss, Rob Romig, Director of Graphics, and myself won an Honorable Mention award in the Best of Photojournalism contest for Newspaper Front Page. The photo above was the photo that ran with a story on cagefighting. You can click on the link above to see the actual award, but for some reason the image is whacked. We've sent a new version so hopefull they'll fix it.

>Black and White Beach

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I had this crazy idea that I wanted to shoot some Tri-X. I borrowed Chris Pietsch's Canon 1V, bought a new Holga and bought some film. The beach was a great place to shoot it up. I was going to process it myself, but with small amount film I was going to shoot it wasn't a good deal. I had it processed at Dot Dotson's.

I paid $10 to have one 120 frame scanned. Ouch. Then I took the 35mm to work. I was going to scan 64mb tiffs of the selects on the Coolscan 4000. After fumbling around for almost an hour, I gave up and scanned them on the old Kodak RFS 2035.

I was really dissappointed in the quality of the scans. There was even a scratch left from the scanner on every frame.

But, after all that time and expense, I'm really pleased with the look. It's totally different than an RGB digital file converted to black and white. I'm not sure I can articulate all the reasons, but there certainly is a difference in the look. I have some more film to shoot, so all I have to do is figure out what the problem is with the Nikon scanner and I'll be set.

Tom

>Driftwood Fort

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>Here's a snap of Greta at the beach in Lincoln City climbing on the driftwood. There are dozens of "forts" made of driftwood to provide shelter from the wind. Tech info: Shot with a Holga plastic camera on Tri-X and scanned with a Nikon 8000.

>A Picture of Me By A Famous Photographer

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>My friend James Rexroad shot this of me a few weeks ago...on film, with his Mamiya 6. He was kind enough of to scan it in for me. Okay, he's not that famous, but he's shot portraits of famous people like Al Gore, Ben Harper, Jennifer Connelly, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant, Al Sharpton, Moby, and now....THOMAS BOYD of Eugene, Ore.

>St. Louis

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I was in St. Louis to cover the Oregon Ducks in the Sweet 16. At night, I went out with my camera. Click on the link above to see my updated gallery of nightlife snaps since the beginning of the year.

>Blog Post About A Photo I Took

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>I get Google updates every week when my name appears on the internet. It's mostly photos that run in other publications when I submit to AP. Today, I found that someone actually made a blog post about a photo I have hanging in the Eugene Airport. Click on the link above to read it.