September - 2014

Occasionally, I write.

My time is mostly spent shooting stills and especially shooting and editing short documentaries for the web. But, sometimes they let me write. I've been assigned to write stories before, but what I've included here are things that I found on my own. When I write, I've often found myself also being the photographer, video shooter and video editor. More frequently, I am a contributor to writers' stories with quotes and facts when I'm the shooter.

Trading supermodels for kids with disabilities

I found out that a former fashion photographer was coming into town to photograph kids with disabilities. I pitched the story to the paper. I interviewed the photographer a few days ahead of the event. The day of the event, I shot stills, video, wrote this story and edited a short film. It ran onine and in the print edition. Austin Bitter, 11, shook his head back and forth and squealed. He wandered through a Madeira yard, and into the next-door neighbor's, followed by cameras