Posts Tagged family
Last Friday, I had my last shift at the Columbia Daily Tribune. I’ll admit, it was bittersweet and hard to finally drive out out of Columbia Sunday morning. I lived there just over four years, made amazing friends, and saw most of them move on. On the long drive to Wyoming (where I live now, [...]
Nice weather earlier this week meant people were hanging out on their porches. (Which makes me wish I had a porch to hang out on…) While driving around I found some boys playing basketball in a front yard. After I approached, I noticed that this little girl was running around dressed like Dorothy from the [...]
Last Sunday, I decided to drop back by the Owens’ in Sturgeon to bring them a few copies of the paper and a DVD of images I shot of Averi during my assignment. I was also asked if I could come back and photograph some more (they said yes) and just to say hi. When [...]
This past Tuesday, I got an assignment to photograph two families in Sturgeon. Both have small children with severe medical conditions, and one, 6-month-old Averi Owens, has a very rare and incurable genetic disorder. I called Amber, Averi’s mom, the day before and asked if I could come over and hang out a little bit [...]
This morning reminded me of one thing: you don’t need a fancy house or a huge table to fit everyone around for a meal. Sometimes you just need each other, and it really doesn’t matter where you are, as long as you’re together. Brian Hughes, center, prays with the rest of his family before having [...]
I picked up a really cool business assignment last week at Dawson’s Shoe Repair. The store has been around since 1956, and Bob Wood, the man who runs it now, is the third-generation owner of the store. I’d always wanted to go in there and check it out when I was a grad student at [...]
Caption: Eight-year-old Loren Gilland dances with her father, Christopher, during the 12th annual Father-Daughter Dance Night at the Activities and Recreation Center. The pair attended the dance last year and came back this year. “We’re trying to make a tradition out of it,” Christopher said. On a related note, this image generated a little bit [...]
I had my very own “Cynicism Can Suck It” moment this week. A couple of weeks ago, I met the Mugabo family. Immigrants from Rwanda, they’re originally from Congo, but fled the violence there and went to a refugee camp in Rwanda. Eventually, they made it to Columbia. About a month ago, the father, Jean-Marie, [...]
Fast lens + clean background + newborn grandson = photo
From my first trip to California. I’ll post more later…
