Scott Walker Interview

I’ve had the opportunity to photograph both Governor Walker and former Governor Doyle on a number of occasions, but they were always in a cramped space in the Capitol with four TV cameras and a boring podium blocking the majority of the governor’s body. Today I got to photograph Scott Walker in his “home,” the […]

Surfing in Sheboygan

Sheboygan is the Malibu of the Midwest, at least for surfing. The day of the cover shoot for Curb Magazine, Sheboygan weather was the antithesis of Malibu. Cold, 45mph winds gusted off of Lake Michigan and the water temperature sat just around 40 degrees. The sky was a cloudy bluish gray and sand-sized rain droplets […]

UW Madhatters Winter Concert 2011

Annual Madhatters Winter Concert at the Orpheum. To my appreciative surprise, the Orpheum reconstructed its main stage to be a more photography-friendly 5 feet off the ground, instead of basically 20 feet high on shaky rafters. Also the different orientation of the stage allowed me get some different angles backstage. Here are a few shots […]

Pet Your Thanksgiving Meal

I find it fitting that my last assignment on my last day at the Gazette was to take photos on a turkey farm. Considering I got to spend a lot of time on farms photographing all sorts of things during my six month internship, ending on a farm just felt right. The reason I was […]

The Early Photographer Gets The Fog

I should really wake up at 6am more often. I had an early morning shoot today on a farm near Spring Green, Wisconsin for Grow Magazine, which is a UW College of Agriculture and Life Sciences publication. The drive to the farm was incredible. There were winding highway roads and sloping hills. The fall trees […]

Wisconsin School for the Deaf Football – Part 2

Here’s the full edit from the 5 or so times I photographed the Wisconsin School for the Deaf football team. Each time I photographed them I struggled with same problem I brought up in my earlier post: how to convey silence in a photograph. I still don’t think I absolutely achieved it, although I think […]

Airshows: For those of us with bad hearing

Went to my first airshow today. Here’s a few things I took away from it: Grown men love planes. Especially pictures of planes. Protective ear equipment is a great accessory. Don’t ask enthusiasts, “What type of airplane was that?” Even if you’re just trying to get caption info. SWAIRFEST is a hilarious name/acronym for an airshow […]

The Sound of Silence

When you think of football, you probably don’t think of a quiet, soft breeze carrying subdued cracks of shoulder pads and a sporadic yet muffled clap from the bleachers. No, you think of fat, sweaty men dressed as female-pig hybrids screaming their tonsils red. Or a bald man painted black and silver with spikes coming out of […]

Wisconsin Storm Damage

Today was a little lesson in timing, patience and a little bit of awkwardness. Even though Madison made it through today’s early morning storm, South Central Wisconsin wasn’t as lucky. On my drive into Janesville there were entire corn fields with stalks laying flat on the ground, tree limbs blocking roads and numerous crews trying […]

Thanks Life

Sometimes life gives you lemons; othertimes, life gives you an adorable blonde little girl with a strawberry t-shirt, strawberry hairclip, and strawberry-striped shorts…picking strawberries on the most beautiful Wisconsin day. Life gave me that today. Thanks life. Leading up to this assignment I’d had a long day. Got to the office at 8:30am and spent […]