The Montage crew watched the unbelievable game six tonight in a sports bar near our hotel in Florida. I watched them watching the game and got a few good ones. The table behind us had the only Ranger fans and we were the only Cards fans. Needless to say, we’ll be back tomorrow. Color isn’t […]
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STLCC—Meramec Presents “The Rocky Horror Show”
I lost my Rocky virginity this week shooting the rehearsals for Rocky Horror at Meramec for The Montage. This will no doubt be the most visually covered event so far this year with a photo booth being set-up for show goers, extensive video work being done by our fine video editor and still images of the show […]
What were they thinking?
Before starting my journey into photojournalism I always wondered what photographers were thinking when they were taking photos. Was there some sort of extreme higher level thought process needed to produce eye pleasing photos? Well, I made some photos I’m pretty happy with at Busch recently and thought back to what I was thinking when taking the […]
STLCC makes an appearance at Busch Stadium
It’s been about a year since I’ve done any sports shooting so it probably wasn’t the wisest choice to wait and brush up on it during one of the better opportunities I have this year access wise. STLCC played inside Busch today following the Cardinals game. Here are a few favorites out of of my […]
First issue, first photos.
The Montage had its first issue this last week. I think I had a strong start photo wise.
Ozark Drive Trailer Fire
I covered my first fire in months tonight. It’s weird how I get a feeling and then a few seconds later my pager starts ringing and sure enough it’s a 1st-alarm fire page. The trailer was fully involved by the time the first truck arrived. By the time I got there it was all out […]
Review: 9 first impressions switching from Tweetdeck to Hootsuite for Android
Recently, for various reasons, I started two additional twitter accounts besides my own, one professional and another a parody of sorts among friends. I’m a heavy user of Tweetdeck (TD), both on my Mac and my Droid, but TD doesn’t handle multiple accounts very well other than personal ones. I’m giving Hootsuite a try […]
Social media worst practices: Capitalizing on a storm, the @dotjenna story.
Inspired by @Rizzotees’ blog post and after watching the exchanges unfold on my timeline, this was too good (read: terrible) to pass up as a display of how to not conduct yourself on twitter or in general. Embedded below is my Storify on the subject.
Schnucks tries and fails using QR codes in TV ads
I’m all for innovative QR code use. I include one on my business card to link to a page here on my site. Whenever I see one in public I’ll usually take the time to scan it just to see how companies or individuals are using them. Tonight while fast forwarding through commercials during The […]
My first Storify: A Study Into How News Orgs Use Twitter Favorites
I compiled my first Storify yesterday. There are many varying uses for Twitter’s favorites function. Retweets are generally not considered endorsements, but what about favorites? I took a look into what news orgs were hitting favorite on and asked them about it. Their replies and favorites are embedded below.