Unlike Michael Corleone though, I was happy to get pulled back in. Back when I worked at The Free Lance-Star, I had a photoblog going and I was posting regularly, sharing what I saw from assignments and from around the edges. Then I left the paper, took a job on the picture desk at Military […]

After 11 years as a newspaper photographer, eight of which I spent at The Free Lance-Star, I left the paper and took a job at Gannett Government Media, formerly the Army Times Publishing Company, as a picture editor. It was a hard decision to make and really required me to re-evaluate how I pictured my […]

Though it’s been quiet on the blog, I haven’t given up completely. Due to some changes in the social networking policy of my employer, I’ve been updating my blog at The Free Lance-Star’s website. Check it out!

Click here for a slideshow from Sunday’s OT Redskins win at FedEx Field.

Colonial Forge’s Frohnapfel twins lead the 2010 Football Preview for the Free Lance-Star

Redskins preseason game vs Buffalo in Landover, MD

I went to the Orange County Fair the other day to shoot a feature on the annual womanless beauty pageant. Rednecks country boys in drag, essentially. It was pretty funny, the guys were good sports but the light was terrible. And because it was 1000 degrees with 110% humidity I wanted to travel light, so […]

I shot a portrait of Tim Scott, a football player from Colonial Forge High School in Stafford, to illustrate a story about college football recruiting. In retrospect, there were a few technical details I should have addressed. In particular, I think I should have hit the front of the box with a little  light as […]

Spectators watch the pig races at the Caroline Count Agricultural Fair. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star)