>Clipper's Entourage

>Here's another one from Clipper's maiden voyage.

>Greta and Clipper

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This is Greta with her new horse named Clipper. My Mom and Greg bought Clipper for Greta and her cousin Payton. This was her first time meeting her new horse. I forsee many trips to North Bend in the coming years.

>Noise Fest

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I swung into something called Eugene Noisefest tonight. I stayed as long as I could until blood started coming out of ears. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but James Rexroad did get some blood splattered on his white shirt from an energetic performer.

Here's a snap from my short time there.

>Coastal Poloroid Panel

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I shot this with my trusty Poloriod One Step on the Oregon Coast and then scanned them. I messed one up so I only have nine out of the ten photos.

>Seaworld

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This is one of the first snaps at Sea World on the first stop of our vacation.

>Orangutan at the San Diego Zoo

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We think her name is Karen. She put on a pretty good show.

>What Have You Done For Me Lately?

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With my new scanner I've been scanning new negs, and old prints. In July and August I'll be showing my sports work to other photographers (more on that later) so I dug out some really old sports photography. This image stuck out immediately. I remember it like it was yesterday....except it was 1993. I was working for Casey Madison at The Columbian. I was sent to this gym that was the darkest I've encountered since. It was notorious among the veteran photographers as being the worse in the Portland/Vancouver metoropolitan area...and Milan Chuckovich said it was darker than any gym in Idaho as well.

Anyway, I was using Nikon F4's with the first version of the 80-200/2.8. It was loaded with Kodak TMZ 3200 pushed one stop to 6400 iso. There was literally no room to stand on the baseline, but there was a balcony over the court. I shot from there and got really lucky with the player falling to the ground and trying to pass. Then, a defender steps in for the steal.

Even though I really didn't know what I was doing that early in my career, I managed to pull a decent shot out of very difficult circumstances. Casey was very pleased. The funny thing is, I know I couldn't do any better now, even though I've got another 14-years of experience and way better equipment. That night, I made a few right decisions and had something interesting happen in front of my camera. I still feel the same way when it happens now....pleased.

I was also amazed by the image quality. This print has grain the size of golf balls. It's dark and gritty...but I there's something kind of cool about it. Photoshop can't do that...at least I don't know how to do it.

>The Page

>The pdf has finally been fixed on the Best of Photojournalism site that shows our winning front page. Click on the link above to see it.

>Cole's Had Enough

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There comes a time in young man's life when he's had his photo taken one too many times. This is that time.

>Heceta Head

>Between assignments on the coast I deployed the Poloroid One Step camera for some instant photo chemical fun.

>Gap Ad

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I really think The Gap ought to pay Greta and I some good money for this photo.. They'd sell a bunch of shirts.

>Take a Look

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>World Tai Chi Day

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I've never understood Tai Chi. Dosen't look fun at all. I'd rather learn how break a cement block with my forehead.

>Sunflowers on Roids

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I busted out the Poloroid One Step and ponied up for some ridiculously expensive film. I haven't shot with it in eight years since the kids were babies. It has to have batteries in it, but I can't figure out where to put them in. I didn't need to though because it fired right up with the strobe and all. I shot of some now wilted sunflowers I got Carrie as part of her birthday present last week. T

>Bus Trip with President Clinton

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I've been going through some old prints and found these from a trip I took through Washington state with the press corps covering President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore on a re-election campaign run in 1996. It was one of the coolest experiences I've had as a photojournalist. A bunch of famous photographers were on the bus and even Sam Donaldson. The only photographers shooting digital at the time were two shooters from the Associated Press, one of which was Doug Mills. Larry Downing was shooting chromes for Time. David Hume Kennerly was shooting black and white for Newsweek.

Even on lonely rural roads people came out of their house and stood on the side of the road to see the convoy go by. Traffic was stopped on I-5 downtown Seattle and a log truck driver climbed on top of his load for better view. At one point, the photographers hopped in the back of a flat bed truck and shot these guys in Longview with letters spelling B-I-L-L-Y across their chests.

We had relatively good access to the president and I learned a lot about my job on that trip.

>A Stroll Through the City...of Eugene

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I shot this last week as I was out for a walk.

>Prom Picture

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These two were posing for a prom picture at Alton Baker Park. I shot this photo and they saw my camera and asked me to take their photo with their camera, so I did. It didn't look like my picture though.

>Greta's Friends

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Here's a snap in the backyard of Greta with her friends.

>Eugene Rave

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I went to this rave for a short time last night after covering a huge warehouse fire.

Tom

>More Taxidermy

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The top photo is shot on Tri-X with a lensbaby and processed in Aperture.
The bottom photo is grossly underexposed. Kinda on purpose, but I have to admit, it was more under than I expected it to be. I scanned it anyway and this what it looked like after some fairly aggressive toning.
This type photography is not really what I'm into, but right now I'm experimenting and testing. I will use this equipment/film on a shoot that counts eventually. In the meantime I just need to find out how it acts in different situations.