House Fire Dog Rescue

I've shot a few pet rescue photos (it's been awhile since my last, though) and today's house fire provided yet another opportunity to photograph a fire fighter carrying the family pet out of a smoldering building (today's house wasn't as smoldery as some have been). I also hung around and got a couple of shots of the dog (named "Q") getting oxygen in the back of the ambulance and a shot of Q being reunited with one of its owners (four-year-old Ceterria).

Vero Beach in Season

The "season" here in Vero is in full swing which means lots of events and society parties to shoot. So, here's another random sampling of my coverage from the last few weeks.


I shot some more polo last month for an article that partially focused on the family aspect of some of the local teams. The second shot here is from an exhibition match where John Walsh squared off against his son, Hayden, for a few chukkers.




I got back in the kitchen for all of the excitement as chefs competing in the Vero's Top Chef fundraiser plated 160 dishes each for waiting diners and judges.


The Environmental Learning Center held its 14th Annual ECOfest, which brought people out in droves and gave me the opportunity to photograph happy children scooping up lake scum and holding large reptiles.



Out on the barrier island here you've got the beach on one side and the river on the other. It's only natural that I take a few shots of each on the reg.



I photographed local goldsmith Gary Dulac and, in an attempt to show his jewelry and him working at the same time, I shot one from the other side of the display case instead of up in his face. That one didn't make the cut but this macro shot of him applying his "scratch finish" to some 14k gold earrings made it into print.



The Vero Man Fossil went on display for a short time at the Vero Beach Museum or Art and drew people from all around the area for a glimpse at the piece of ancient art.


The Community Church in Vero began installation of their new Lively Fulcher pipe organ.


I like photos with space even if it's just a shot of a fellow dusting off a light fixture on the ceiling.


Asian antiques and their dealer


This last shot ran as a full page vertical on the front of our Health section. The patient is undergoing Conductive Keratoplasty to improve his near vision, not being tortured.

Bonus element: framing?

I actually had my external hard drive hooked up to my computer the other day so I randomly selected a few photos that I like from the last couple of months to make a blog post. Now that I'm looking at them I see that there are unintentional similarities between the bulk of them and that, apparently, I've been doing a lot of framing lately. I guess I'll need to start using a new bonus element this month...maybe a pan blur on every assignment? I'd say about half off these made it into the paper (which is not to say that they ran with any great size or uncropped) and the others didn't for whatever reason. Below you have the Bass and Birdies charity fishing/golf tournament; a trio of dishes from Tangos II here in Vero (that fish is a sculpture on the wall reflecting off of the bar); a whole roast suckling pig at Vero's charity Top Chef qualifiers; a Pilates class; set production for Riverside Theatre's big production of "42nd Street"; a shot from the Vero Beach Museum of Art featuring a larger-than-life bronze sculpture of a watermelon; a neat little scene I stumbled upon walking along the highway the day after the Superball; a silhouetted Argentine horse at Windsor's Equestrian Park; and the last two are portraits of a fellow who is currently living and working aboard his sailboat at the Vero marina (I went with the first one for print but I liked the second shot as well). Thanks for looking.