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Friday night lights

Currently, when the newspaper sends us out to shoot Friday night football (as well as many other events), we are asked to bring back 150-200 photographs to create an online gallery. Yes, it is a lot of photos! So, I try to get a lot of the non-action shots out of the way by getting to the game early. This was one photo I enjoyed of my 150 shots from this past Friday night as Southside High hosted Wade Hampton High School.



Posted October 25th, 2010.

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Happy Halloween!

The other day I got a phone call that there was an emergency photo shoot – Zombies! Yes. The Link photographer couldn’t make one of his photo shoots and I was asked to fill in. I drove up to one of the older cemeteries in Greenville and waited. I was a little hesitant as the zombies, who will be participating in a charity ZombieWalk, walked through the front gate. During the quick shoot, we did plenty of scary poses and individual poses. But, just before we left the location we decided to try one last pose. Happy zombies. This photo just makes me laugh. Enjoy!


Posted October 25th, 2010.

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Katrina Five Years Later





Mary Mujahid, right, who was evacuated to Greenville from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, sits with her granddaughter Granda Welch, left, and Granda’s daughter Terri Lynn Hicks at Mary’s new home in Greenville on Thursday, August 26, 2010.

I was sent to shoot the amazing story of this family on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Both grandmother and granddaughter survived and eventually made it out of the hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, but they had very different experiences. Even five years later, emotions of gratitude and anger were running high.

Posted August 29th, 2010.

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Greenville Drive




Last night was a busy night photographically and with deadlines for print and galleries fast approaching I almost called it a night. I changed to a location that I normally don’t shoot from and I got this photo as well as another decent action shot. Pretty good reminder to change it up and try something new.

Posted August 10th, 2010.

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Dangerous Roads




The tire marks behind Angela Sullivan lead towards her home, back left, on the corner of Orient Drive and Ashmore Bridge Road after a car crashed barely missing her home on Sunday, August 8, 2010.

Posted August 9th, 2010.

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Cat groomers





I made this photo while working on a feature story at the National Cat Groomers Institute of America. I decided to post it because I had heard from many people how it made them laugh….so if you need a good laugh, here you go!


Check out the article at The Greenville News.

Posted July 27th, 2010.

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The Sanfords




I was sent to Columbia to photograph South Carolina republican candidate for governor, Nikki Haley, on the night she accepted the republican nomination. That night it was one picture of current Governor Mark Sanford and his ex-wife, Jenny, greeting each other with a quick kiss that caused quite a buzz. The Greenville News ran the photograph (as well as other local papers), but The News chose not to release it to television.

Posted July 24th, 2010.

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HRH Prince Edward visits


In this photo: His Royal Highness, The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex is welcomed to Stevens Aviation in Greer on Thursday, May 27, 2010. So, I have to admit that I was a little excited to photograph HRH when he arrived (and also before he left Greenville, SC) since my grandmother immigrated from London and I even lived there for a short while.

Posted June 2nd, 2010.

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Fallen soldier returns


The family of Sgt. Jeremiah Wittman react to the sights and sounds of the plane carrying Wittman’s casket as it pulls up to the hangar at Stevens Aviation on Monday, February 22, 2010. It was an emotional morning watching the casket of a soldier return home to his family. I think many of us were a little teary-eyed when leaving the airport.

For more photos, check out The Greenville News.


Posted February 22nd, 2010.

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Reedy River church service


The congregations of St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral and St. John of the Ladder participate in the annual Blessing of the Waters service in Falls Park on Sunday.

For more photos click here for The Greenville News.

Posted January 11th, 2010.

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