Photographing babies and rescuing turtles- the story of a photojournalist

You know there has to be more to this story, and there is.

1- The assignment:
Photograph mother, baby and grandmother.
The reason: Baby was delivered by grandmother in the hospital's garage parking lot!
Result: a nice simple little photo of the 3 in the Dispatch A-01!

2- The turtle.
It was attempting to cross a country road as I drove away from my assignment and it was not going to make it to the other side.
New assignment: Save the turtle!!!!
Solution: Stop traffic, take turtle away from the road.

New Problem: What to do with turtle? I cannot trust it will just stay away from the road.
New assignment: Take turtle to a save location.
Solution: Use google GPS on blackberry to search for a large pond to release turtle. Love that technology!

--Unfortunately for the turtle the pond that I choose for it was over 10 miles away from where it met me, but I am sure that it will make new friends there!!

Great Project

So some of my posts are not in the right order since I changed blogs, but this project needs to be here.

This is the type of project that I love to do (and most multimedia photojournalists) long documentary projects. As I was gathering all the pieces for the post-production, I noticed that it was going to be hard to just to have audio come in with no intro. Usually, I think about using a narrator, but in this case the story line needed it. Enter the reporter!

Not only did the Dispatch have us the time to work on this project, great space inside for a dynamic layout, but also the cover.

Pearl Alley Market

Here is a small video I did for the Columbus Dispatch on the Pearl Alley Market. It was a wild art photo assignment that came out of the morning news meeting, but I figured it was a good opportunity to do a little video too. Multimedia is also "multitasking"

You can't go wrong with if you start with praying mantis eggs!!!

Water Rescue Training

This was a fun self-assignment because I got to wear all their gear and play in the water. Cameras and audio recorder did get a little wet, but all survived.

Soundslides

Let's see if this works...

It did!, now I have will add more soundslides. Got to love that multimedia.

Memorial for Ohio fallen police officers

I took these photographs on an assignment covering a Memorial to honor fallen Ohio police officers at Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy in London, Ohio on Tuesday, May 05, 2009.