Backpacker Magazine contacted me about doing a portrait of Fresno collector Rick Norsigian. The Fresno Bee had done a few stories on him already about his mysterious collection of glass negatives found at a garage sale that he claims were made by famous nature photographer Ansel Adams. Although there is a pretty good case that...
I did this conceptual shoot of the Fresno band Fierce Creatures for the Fresno Bee’s entertainment section, “7,” a couple of weeks ago. I was pretty happy with it and got a lot of feedback on it so I thought I’d post it here on my blog. It’s stories like this that keep me wanting...
Okay, so this is kind of a cheap attempt to get a little more traffic to my site, but I couldn’t resist. When I tweeted an iPhone photo of the crowd waiting to see David Archuleta at Sierra Vista Mall I got about 10 RT’s in five minutes. So I sent another and then worked...
I was selected to spend a day with Cruz Ramos, the city manager for the tiny town of San Joaquin, by the Local Government Commission, a non-profit organization that helps small communities collaborate together with ideas to improve life for their residents. It was a great experience for me to shadow Cruz on her 10-hour...
Riverdale High School in tiny little Riverdale, a farm town in south Fresno County, made big news today when it was named the College Board Inspiration Award winner – one of only three in the nation. Schools chosen for this award show a high percentage of college-bound students. Riverdale accepted a $25,000 check and trophy...
Pha Mouvangsou’s life was a tough one from the get-go. As an infant, his mother (photographed with him and two of his sons here) smuggled him and any other surviving family members to Thailand from Laos where his family was being hunted down by the Viet Cong. HIs father, who was fighting with the Americans...
Jose Carranza will be featured in the American Pharmacy Association’s Pharmacy Today magazine. Carranza and his family run a pharmacy in the small farm town of Hughson, CA near Modesto.
Sunday at The Bee is rarely slow, but this past Sunday had me out hunting for a feature package for the Local page. A sign in front of Fresno’s Woodward Park peaked my interest so I drove over to the relatively new Woodward Park Mountain Bike Skills Progression Course. There I found folks, young and...
Back in January I posted a photo that I shot for Scholastic News of a teenager gone from gangs to green. Juan Hernandez left the street gang lifestyle to instead fight against environmental injustice. Although the article doesn’t run until Earth Day, I did get some pdf proofs of the pages with Juan’s story, and...
Finally got my first chance to photograph the Amgen Tour of California Wednesday. I had applied for credentials for several years but for whatever reason, I was never able to make it out to one of the stages. This time it was coming into our coverage area so we would definitely be all over it....
I spent a day off from The Bee last Friday on a freelance assignment for Scholastic News, you know that little newspaper we used to look at as kids in school. I drove down to Bakersfield to photograph a teenager who helped organize an awareness campaign about a scrap metal plant polluting the environment when...
Spent the afternoon shooting dogs and their owners to preview an upcoming dog show in The Bee’s “7.” Dogs are fun, but they are like kids in that they really don’t care about having their pictures taken. The big challenge is squeaking a toy with one hand and focusing and shooting with the other.
Here’s a collection of some of my favorites from my work for The Bee in no particular order. Enjoy.
This is officially my first magazine cover photo. It is of CART teacher Bethany Wielicki for Cable in the Classroom Magazine which will publish it in January. The publishers of the magazine found me through my American Society of Media Photographers membership link. I’m hoping that this one turns into a few more as this...
Working on Sunday I made a trip up to Pine Ridge at the top of the Four Lane east of Auberry for a church profile assignment. There was a little snow on the ground but the roads were clear, making for a great day for families to take to the snow for a little holiday...
New web site
Big clouds over the Big Fresno Fair
Yosemite Valley wedding: Cristina and Ramon
Tenaya Lodge wedding: Elizabeth and Brian
