What do I keep? Anything resembling a picture. The blurry stuff I usually delete in camera. I also don't keep the referee-butt images (which I call "doing the butt") that feed my photographic fish stories (I had this award-winning shot, but a referee ran into the frame as I squeezed the shutter).
Tag: ESPN HoopGurlz
Girl-Wide View
When I started HoopGurlz.com, a national Web site about girl's basketball that's now part of ESPN, I focused on bringing visual and audio elements to it. I have for the vast majority of my career been a writer, but lately I spend as much time, often more, on photography. I do because I believe girls …
It’s a Girl Thing
As thrilling as the advent of Web-accessible, high-definition video may be, I guess I’m old fashioned. I still prefer the moment-captured, visceral impact of a good photograph. Better yet that the photograph is set on top of good audio, not only making the picture worth even more than a thousand words, but imbuing an I-was-there …
The New American
When you tell stories for a living long enough, you learn that you almost never get the perfect conditions in which to spin the most compelling yarns.