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 […]

Rock County Fair

This last week I stepped in manure, had manure slung at me and all my clothes still smell like manure. I’ve been to (and covered) plenty of fairs…but never a 4-H fair. Considering Janesville is a heavily agricultural community, the Rock County 4-H Fair is a huge deal. Granted, I didn’t really know that on […]

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 […]

Poop Welding

So far on my list of “Things That Will Always Make Good In A Photo” I have: cute animals cute kids silhouettes ugly men in underwear Silly String Bubbles Reflections Fog And now I will be adding welding. People welding is pretty great. You’ve got grittiness, lots of shadows and contrast, and of course, cool […]

Shady Hills

Just off Highway 140 at the intersection of Creek Road in Clinton is Shady Hills, a mobile home park somewhat out of place with rural farms dotting the landscape. Shady Hills is special because the small community is faced with having half of the park removed after the township deemed the owner unfit to manage. […]

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 […]

Slowball

Photographing baseball can be…boring. Photographing baseball in mid-90 degree heat is an exercise in patience and commitment…and resisting boredom. Earlier this week I shot the WIAA Sectionals double-header where Parker played Monona Grove and Verona. It was hot. And boring. But in-between pitches, spitting, random timeouts and water breaks, I managed to entertain myself by testing […]