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 […]

Fireworking

Firework photos look easy. All you have is sparks of light over a black background, it’s almost pedestrian. Well, it’s a little more complicated than that, but not much. Not to say you can’t get a decent firework photo with an iPhone or less, but to really come up with a fantastic firework photo, you’ve […]

June in Photos

It’s the doggiest of dog days so far this June and it’s been mostly quiet in Green Bay. Packers training camp will be ramping up in the coming weeks and I suppose the end of June is sort of the quiet before the storm.

Graduaballgennews-athon

It’s been a grind-it-out last few weeks with numerous graduations, baseball games and pre-summer general news events. Here’s some of my favorites that stood out from the rest of the noise.

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 […]

Cellcom Green Bay Marathon 2013

Got to enjoy some of that nice morning light early today while covering the Cellcom Green Bay Marathon. If only all news events happened between the hours of 5:45am-8 and 6pm-8, life for photographers would be great. Here some of my favorites: You can find the rest of the gallery here

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 […]

Packers NFL Draft 2013

When I was assigned the NFL draft party at Lambeau, I got excited to get creative. Sometimes events where there are lots of people pumped about one particular thing can lead to some nice candid moments. But, as is often common, what I imagined the NFL draft party to be and what it was were […]

Brewers Home Opener

Wisconsinites don’t seem to need many reasons to sit outside and tailgate in barely above-freezing temperatures. And when you give them reasons like the Brewers home opener, people get kind of crazy. I’ve never been to opening day for any baseball team. I’ve only heard stories about the crazy fans in the parking lot before […]