I’ve been on the road lately and had the opportunity to grab some interesting shots of severe storms. These photos of thunderstorms are from Chicago and Philadelphia. The first is from the window seat of an airplane as we were…
Category: photojournalism
Sometimes when working for a client, you get rewarded with sweet assignments. Back in 2002, Pierce was the official fire truck sponsor for the winter olympics in Salt Lake City. I was sent out there … before the games ……
While visiting Rye, NY for a wedding, I found myself looking out over Milton Harbor toward New York City about 1AM. The view was beautiful, and the light on the horizon was enticing. The area was silhouetted by the distant…
This is just a quick post to reminisce about an image taken during my youth … an early effort at environmental portraiture on a fire scene. I thought this guy exhibited a lot of character in the way he carried himself. The…
We’ve been taught that the viewer’s eye will be drawn to the brightest portion of an image … which promotes the need for an understanding of lighting, composition, and contrast. But what if you have an image that begs to…
Photographing a fire scene at night poses several challenges, chief among them being lighting, but smoke, water mist, and rain are a few of the obstacles waiting to trip up a photographer. Realizing also that a fire scene is not a posed…
The concept of an environmental portrait goes beyond the staged and posed setup. Here’s an example of an environmental portrait of a fire chief while on-scene at a fire. This was not posed or planned. It was an exercise in photojournalism…
Try as we may, photojournalism does not always allow us as photographers to maintain total control over image capture. In the hectic process of both following the action and keeping control of all aspects of the exposure … sometimes we…
Some time ago I found myself returning to Midway Airport on a late flight. As I walked through the terminal, I noticed a bit of commotion around Gate B1 … police officers, firefighters, lots of active and retired military personnel,…