Category Archives: Random Musings
Veterans Day
The past few days, I’ve covered a lot of Veterans Day related activities, from upcoming event stories to a profile of a local, highly decorated Vietnam veteran for today’s paper. (You can read that here.) Today I covered a memorial … Continue reading
Filed under Photography, Random, Random Musings, Wilmington News Journal
Another Wednesday night.
Wednesday nights in Wilmington have become routine, ritualistic and most often predictable. But that’s not to say they’re not fun — they always are. In fact, for me, it’s nice to have some regularity in what has become an unpredictable … Continue reading
Filed under Photography, Random, Random Musings
I will find a way. Somehow.
I might have to sell my car, get a second job or part with a few organs (who needs their kidneys nowadays, anyway?), but I will find a way to make the camera pictured below mine. It’s a Canon 5D … Continue reading
Filed under Photography, Random Musings
Bloomsday
Yesterday was Bloomsday, or the 106th anniversary of the day on which the events of Ulysses, James Joyce’s seminal piece of literature, took place. The holiday has since become a celebration of all things Joyce, particularly in Dublin, where the … Continue reading
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The Only Game in Town
An item posted today on a blog for Philadelphia Magazine tells the story of Dan Robrish, a former AP reporter in Philly who is now living a sort-of superhero life in rural Pennsylvania. He quit his beat after 12 years … Continue reading
Filed under Media Matters, Random Musings
Rocky & Valentino
In honor of St. Patrick’s day today, I decided to post this picture of Valentino, a man we met outside the Guinness Brewery in Dublin. He was asking for spare change– but the change wasn’t for him; it was for … Continue reading
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An explanation
Pray for my computer. On Wednesday of last week, my laptop contracted a virus that all but crippled it, nearly wiping out everything I had stored on the machine since last May– thousands of job specific photos, videos, story notes … Continue reading
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The Third Floor
We ventured to the abandoned third floor of my building again today. The sun poured in through the big windows facing South street, into the cavernous room covered in pigeon feathers and dust. I took this of Eric as he was … Continue reading
Filed under Photography, Random Musings
In a picture: the state of the news industry
I love how this one picture, taken somewhere in Washington, D.C., completely sums up all of the problems facing the news industry in America. People want content, but they’re not sure they want to pay for it. In its defense, … Continue reading
Filed under Media Matters, Random Musings
Fruit of the Gods
If ever my plans of writing and making photographs for a living don’t pan out, I’m taking a cue from Jason Mraz and starting an avacado farm in California. Watch me.
Filed under Food, Random Musings
