Wheelchair basketball

Family and a bee

Tri-State Initiative: Muslims, Jews and Christians for Peace

Old Portfolio and 2008 reflections.

-Needs a curve adjustment,

*Maybe I should have captions...

But this one to the left placed third in features at the Nebraska Press Photographer Association's Savage Seminar in Omaha last month. Congratulations to Clay Lomneth, Matt Buxton, Teresa Prince and Andrew Lamberson for there well-deserved recognition at the seminar.

Peruse the 90+ photos and see what my colleagues and i have to offer.

http://www.nebraskanewsphotographers.com/2008/stsin/index.html

-Good light, one of my first portraits ever, probably deserves early retirement.

-It's been done, needed better light.

-Easy as hell to capture, can do a lot better.

-The power of a smile, but boxes are ugly.





-decent but needs more

-Lazy swordsman and fairly flat

-Cut of his feet







-Clinton's not so special, handshakes are boring.

*This one just won the 2008 Christine Pappas Award for Undergraduate work and was published in the Plains Song Review XI edition. I was honored to get published in the fine literary journal and was dumbfounded when I found out of the award. Seriously, I was...

http://www.plainssongreview.blogspot.com/

-OK for first attempt at motion blur with the flash, but still needs much more.

-Probably my best photo in the portfolio, but I plan to replace it soon.

*disclaimer. I have received critiques from photographers at Sports Illustrated, Associated Press, Omaha World-Hearld, Witchita Eagle and Contract Press Images and have gathered some nuggets of advice I'd like to pass along.

I learned in terms of what a photographer should never do.

Never:

1. Give employers an opportunity to reject me because of a weak photo among strong ones.

2. Fully trust advisors with everything they say and not myself.

3. Take risks, get the photo that I need and than go nuts with angles, layers, closeups, etc...

4. Have a portfolio photo that is not perfectly toned. An great photo that is overexposed, are you freakin kiddin me?

5.Develop a style to distinguish myself from the rest - I'm too eclectic

according to a cool AP photog.

6. Have audio slideshows that are too long or contain dull transition moments.

7.Develop a damn style.

8. Seek the why and the how will follow-Bill Frakes when Patrick Breen and I assisted him with high school state wrestling portraits in Omaha.

http://www.sikids.com/sikidstv/nebraska-high-school-wrestling-championships

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*Talking with Kenneth Jarecke during a critique at the Savage Seminar, I was reminded of why its important to develop a thick skin with your photographs. Criticisim is great, and low self-esteem is not. I took everything Kenneth said to heart, easily. Why take it personal? It's not personal, it's about doing the right things when you can to take advantage of what's there for the taking. Make decisions and know what you want to say before you take the picture. Be ready for the moment but don't rush so much as to not try for "the photo" because you just wanted to make sure you got it. This probably sounds like rambling, but I'm kind of thinking outloud right now.

Kenneth is an amazing photographer, and I'm sure all of you out there have at one point or another seen his work. http://www.kennethjarecke.com/

I need to update my portfolio, throw out the bad and insert the good.

Does anyone know which is more valuable in a portfolio, picture stories, audio slideshows or both?

All for now