Hot Cold Ghana Light

Approaching the tail end of leading the first program and completing my first loop of two around Ghana. Made it to Cape Coast today—a pretty visually fascinating city with lots of color, narrow streets and different architecture from the rest of the places I’ve stayed in Ghana thus far. Has a lot of visual similarities to […]

Mole National Park Safari (and more)

There really isn’t a way to describe walking among a herd of wild elephants without sounding pretentious. But I’ll try anyways. Yesterday the group went on two safaris—one walking, the other riding on the roof of a safari jeep. Both were incredible. I kept remarking to the students to appreciate how many different animals we […]

Ghana Week 2

Second week in Ghana. Spent a few days in Bolgatanga, which is in the Northern region. Had the opportunity to meet local tribal elders before climbing their sacred hills…we also stopped in some local markets to pick up fabric to make traditional Ghanian clothing. We head to Mole National Park tomorrow morning for a safari.

USA vs. Ghana World Cup 2014

What better place to watch the USA take on Ghana in a World Cup grudge match than at a local outdoor viewing party in Accra, Ghana? This was my first World Cup viewing experience outside the US and it didn’t disappoint. The energy was tense and exciting and full of blaring horns. Besides the atmosphere, you couldn’t ask for […]

With Mouths Wide Open: Brat Fest 2014 Edition

I am from Wisconsin, therefore I like brats. And a festival dedicated to brats is exactly where I want to be on a beautiful Memorial Day weekend. Besides being an excellent place to gorge on cooked meat, Brat Fest is also a prime people watching experience (although Corn Fest in Sun Prairie is still #1 […]

Madison Glow Run

Since I’m in-between jobs and grad school right now, I don’t get to shoot as much as usual. In some ways that’s nice. But today I felt like I needed to take my cameras for a walk and when I found out that a “glow run” was happening I thought it would be a great […]

Mifflin 2014

Despite excellent weather and relaxed police presence, the Mifflin Street Block Party failed to deliver big numbers. As I expected, the party was even smaller than last year. I stopped by for a little over an hour and shot during what should have been the peak hours of attendance. If there was a photo to […]

Mifflin Street Block Party: A Retrospective (2009-2013)

Approaching Mifflin 2014 (if that even happens), I thought it would be worth putting together a collection of my photos from the five years I spent documenting the decline of the party. Working on this project, if you can really call it that, I puzzled many people who didn’t understand why I kept shooting this […]

Photos of the Year 2013

It just doesn’t feel like the end of December until every media outlet has put out their lists of important things that transpired in the last year. I suppose I’m adding to the noise. This year I took roughly 40,000 photos (that’s how many I imported at least). Compared to most professional photojournalists, I shoot […]

Packers vs. Steelers

It wasn’t as snowy as the Lions vs. Eagles game a couple weeks ago, but the game was still snowy and muddy so I’ll take it. Overall I was pretty happy with my whole take yesterday, including my pregame stuff. Although, perhaps more frustrating than the Packers loss was missing Eddie Lacy’s play-of-the-game leap into […]