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 […]

Friday Night (No) Lights

Shooting Friday night football is generally fun, although by the end of the season, each game gets pretty routine. Show up 30 minutes early, grab a fan photo here, cheerleader photo there, team huddle photo over there. Then the game starts…get a good shot of the quarterback, running back, top player, etc. It’s like following […]

Fall Colors

Yesterday I got to pretend I was a nature photographer and set out to shoot some of the fall colors around Green Bay. Here are the results

Not quite

This photo sort of sums up the past few weeks or month or however long it’s been since I updated my blog. The photo I had in my head when I saw this scene was way cooler, trust me. See the little hole near her head (it was a hole in the weird cloth-type stuff […]

Hog Wrestling at Caldron Falls Bar

I experienced a part of Wisconsin (and its people) that I had only heard about in the folklore stories of Northwoods’ shenanigans when I covered hog wrestling in Twin Bridge, Wis., yesterday. The event in itself is already odd — teams of four compete against the clock to wrestle a pig, pick it up and […]

Learning Under Fire

(First off, sorry for that headline pun, I just had to do it.) I kind of blew it yesterday. Unlike other mistakes I’ve made as a photojournalist, I doubt many people will notice. But the lapse in thinking still bothers me. Yesterday around 11 I got word of an apartment complex fire in the nearby […]

Lingerie football is weird

As a photojournalist, there are always going to be assignments that are uncomfortable. Taking a photo of someone is often a very intimate interaction, and there are plenty of times where either person is self-conscious of the situation. Saying that, shooting Green Bay’s lingerie football team (known as the “Green Bay Chill”) was likely the […]

Mifflin Street Block Party 2013 in photos

Soglin did it. He crushed Mifflin. Not only was this year the worst attended Mifflin, but also the quietest and most well-behaved I’ve ever seen. If it weren’t for the late afternoon sunshine, I doubt even a thousand people would have shown up. Contrast that to the 20,000 who showed up 2 and 3 years […]

Some Pictures I Like

So it’s been a while. After the first snowfall, Wisconsin in the the middle of winter isn’t the most photogenic. When the snow melts or is basically gone, only the bare brown frozen grass remains to color the landscape. That sounds way too depressing. I think I’ve spent too much time in the -20 degree […]

Mud Trucking: Tales from an Indoorsman

There haven’t been many times when a photo project falls in my lap. For my first major project at the Press-Gazette though, that’s essentially what happened. While I was driving to Lambeau to cover a Packers game, I saw this scene near the Mason Street bridge about a couple miles from Lambeau field: I had […]