Election night
As far as election night coverage goes, I had it about as easy as possible. I had one assignment, one person to photograph. John Brock thinks Tulsa’s city government is broken and for the last seven years has been trying to fix it. Two of the measures he helped bring to this year’s general election [...]
The anti press conference
Wahoo! Press conference! Yay!! I think I looked at the podium for about 20 seconds…Here’s the rest of my take. Also thanks to the school for actually letting me into a classroom to get something nice there as well.
Oklahoma State vs Kansas State
I will remember this game forever, but not for anything that happened on the field, although OSU’s roller coaster fourth quarter was entertaining at the time. Just after the game ended, while my cards were still ingesting in the photo workroom beneath Boone Pickens Stadium, there was an earthquake. It was the second earthquake I [...]
Bison Roundup
Looking ahead on our schedule of photo assignments, this looked interested and I requested it a week in advance. It turned out to be a case of expectations being higher than what would actually turn out to be impossible. I saw “bison roundup at the Tallgrass Prairie” and naively thought that might actually mean getting [...]
Occupy Tulsa IV: The Arrests
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a situation deteriorate so quickly in my life. Within a few short minutes, the scene at Centennial Green turned from a silent demonstration of a group of individuals with locked arms, to complete chaos; pepper spray being deployed, police officers dragging those who were arrested to vans, and other [...]
Occupy Tulsa III: The Warning
This was the calm before the storm. We had a tip that Tulsa police were going to enforce a curfew law on the group of Occupy Tulsa protesters who had been staying in a downtown park for several days, so I headed to the park after my last assignment and started waiting to see what [...]
Dia de los Muertos
Living Arts of Tulsa hosted a Day of the Dead street festival with music, altar displays, dancing, and food. Unbelievably, I was stopped dead in my tracks at the entrance by an overzealous ticket checker who didn’t seem to think my Tulsa World press ID badge was good enough to let me into this public [...]
Occupy Tulsa II: The Camp
When I last encountered the Occupy Tulsa movement more than two weeks ago, it was for a march through downtown. At that time there wasn’t a permanent occupation spot like in other major cities. That has now changed. It is small, it is quiet, but it is there. Protestors are currently trying to negotiate with [...]
Tulsa Run
This being the second downtown race in two weeks that I had to shoot, I struggled a bit trying not to repeat compositions or styles I had done already. For the Tulsa Run, I focused most of my energy into shooting pre- and post-race moments, rather than the running itself. Also unlike the Route 66 [...]
Flight in a B-17
“Hey can you come in a little bit early today? We have a one o’clock that needs to get picked up at the airport.” And that’s how I ended up getting to fly over Tulsa in a fully restored B-17 bomber. The guys with the EAA are great, I met some of them in another [...]
Pumpkin Baby
If I shoot one fall weather/pumpkin/Halloween feature this season, just let this be it and call it done and over with. I saw this and it just reminds me of one of the closing scenes from the film “Babies,” which, I must admit, is one of the most epic scenes in cinematic history.
Taking State
These are two very different pictures, both in celebration, taken in the same gym just hours apart. Six hours of back-and-forth volleyball will wear you out any day but after making these frames I kinda stopped complaining about the time spent at the Claremore gym. I shot plenty of action in the preceding tournament games [...]
Occupy Tulsa I: The March
The Occupy Wall Street movement has officially arrived in northeastern Oklahoma. Actually, they’ve been around for a few weeks but finally had a large, public demonstration this weekend. Hundreds gathered at the BOK Center to share stories, make signs, hear activists list grievances against big banks and corporations, and ultimately get fired up from a [...]
Route 66 Quarter Marathon
Last time I photographed a (full) marathon was in Columbia last year, through rolling hills, picturesque backgrounds and beautiful dawn sunlight. Being in a metropolitan city at 9 a.m. made things a little more challenging this time around. I still tried to play with light and find details to make pictures of people running look [...]
Sterling Willis
This little story started off as a “go to this kid’s house and take a portrait” assignment. So, I did. You can see that above. But knew I could do more with it so arranged to meet Sterling a few more times to go to therapy, follow him around, and watch one of his almost [...]
Tulsa vs North Texas
My first college football game since last November. Felt good to be on the field again.
