Monday, January 31
Challenger Learning Center
Last week I was assigned to shoot the opening of the 48th Challenger Learning Center in the country at Shawnee High School in Louisville. I was pumped when I learned that it wasn't just going to be grip and grins and a ribbon cutting. Here are my favorites.
Monday, January 24
Sorrow in Austin, Indiana
On Sunday, I went to Austin, Indiana with a writer from the Courier-Journal, Jere Downs, to get a sense of how the community is coping with the tragic death of a family that happened on Friday.
Around 4:30 on Friday afternoon, police forced their way into the home of Amanda Bennett and her three children. The police found Bennett and her children, Jasmine Abbot, 14, Katelyn Bennett, 9, and Ryan Bennett, 4, dead each with fatal gun shot wounds to the head. There is some speculation to what happened that afternoon. Some reports are saying that Amanda Bennett shot her children then turned the gun on herself. From what we gathered that day, a lot of people don't believe she would have done such a thing.
The writer and I spent some time with Jasmine's friends. They were pretty torn up speaking about the whole situation. It was tough to listen to. TamRa Stidham, who is in the last photo, was getting ready to go over to the Bennett home that very night when she heard the news. “I broke down and cried in the middle of the road,” TamRa, 15, said.
As I am writing this, I checked the Courier-Journal's website and it says that according to Indiana State Police, Amanda Bennett is the one who killed her four children and then herself.
It's hard to believe what some people can become after hardship.
Around 4:30 on Friday afternoon, police forced their way into the home of Amanda Bennett and her three children. The police found Bennett and her children, Jasmine Abbot, 14, Katelyn Bennett, 9, and Ryan Bennett, 4, dead each with fatal gun shot wounds to the head. There is some speculation to what happened that afternoon. Some reports are saying that Amanda Bennett shot her children then turned the gun on herself. From what we gathered that day, a lot of people don't believe she would have done such a thing.
The writer and I spent some time with Jasmine's friends. They were pretty torn up speaking about the whole situation. It was tough to listen to. TamRa Stidham, who is in the last photo, was getting ready to go over to the Bennett home that very night when she heard the news. “I broke down and cried in the middle of the road,” TamRa, 15, said.
As I am writing this, I checked the Courier-Journal's website and it says that according to Indiana State Police, Amanda Bennett is the one who killed her four children and then herself.
It's hard to believe what some people can become after hardship.
Choir Boy
This photo comes from before the start of a Christmas choir performance in Tampa.
Noah Gold, 11, goes over his song sheet while he waits alongside his fellow choir members before they entered St. John's Church to sing in their annual Christmas concert.
Noah Gold, 11, goes over his song sheet while he waits alongside his fellow choir members before they entered St. John's Church to sing in their annual Christmas concert.
Bieber Fever
One of my last assignments at the St. Petersburg Times was to shoot the Justin Biber frenzy at the St. Pete Times Forum. Stupid me forgot ear plugs and one of the other photographers was nice enough to lend me some. I can't imagine what this show would have been like without ear plugs. I might have caught the fever.
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