Looking back

Posted on: November 23rd, 2009

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I recently spoke to a local camera club about my experience as a photojournalist working for daily newspapers over the last decade. Preparing for the meeting, I went through all the files I had readily available from my archives, and–WHOA–the flood of memories came.
I feel fortunate to be able to take photographs for a living, but an added bonus is the visual diary that’s been created without really thinking about it. At a glance I can see that I was watching an Elvis impersonator snuggle a nursing home resident on February 25, 2003. On April 1, 2004, I was riding in the back of a Humvee in Iraq (shaking in my bulletproof vest). November 2, 2007, was the day I shared a moment with a lovely lady named Nancy Lemmer as she saw her granddaughter for the first time. The woman in the photo above is Mrs. Blanche Cobb, who was 104 at the time that photo was taken on January 5, 2005. Her wit was as sharp as a tack.
It’s not always easy to see each day’s blessing, but looking back at the culmination of moments, I’m humbled by the privilege of being a witness to them all. Click here to see some of the images from the past decade.

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