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 […]

Rhythm & Booms: Aftermath

With a title that has Rhythm & Booms in it, I guess I should just say now that I’m not going to have any fireworks photos in this post. Sorry to disappoint. So what did I take photos of at Rhythm & Booms then? Pretty much everything after the fireworks (well, afterwards for the most […]

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 […]

Underwear Achievers

Apparently men in small, colorful underwear are drawn to my camera. Considering this high school graduation was pretty uneventful (and unbearably cold) up to this point, I wanted to shake that guy’s hand for giving me a great shot. Also, whoever’s idea it was to give every student Silly String instead of throwing hats in […]

Hunting the Weather

When bad weather hits and news is slow, every photographer knows what comes next: the weather feature photo. For the most part I actually like doing these, because shooting the weather is a nice break from regular newspaper assignments. Plus, weather photos give photographers the best opportunity to show off their creativity. Yesterday morning, however, […]

Tight Crops and Short Shorts

The smell of hot rubber. The green grass. The slight breeze. The blue sky. The crack of the starting gun. I have some pretty fond memories of running track my senior year in high school, so the past two days of covering track for the Gazette have actually been pretty fun. Today was an especially […]

Week One Done

Week 1 of my six month internship at the Janesville-Gazette is in the books. So far, each day has already offered some valuable learning moments, such as…get as much info for captions as possible, keep a pair of dry socks in the car (always) and don’t count on GPS. What I find most fascinating about […]