Associated Press
News: HOPE grant changes
The other week after my assignment from the Wall Street Journal I had to high tail it up to Gwinnett to get some photos of Gwinnett Technical College student Mary Raterman for a story about how non-traditional students like her were being affected by changes to the HOPE Scholarship. The first few shots we did [...]
News: UPS Headquarters
The last Friday in October, I got a call from an editor at the Atlanta bureau of the Associated Press asking if I could run and get some photos of the UPS headquarters in Sandy Springs/Dunwoody because of some suspicious packages that had been found on two of their planes. It wasn’t anything super fancy, [...]
News: Roy Barnes votes (AP)
Last week I shot an election day assignment for the Associated Press. They had me go out and cover former Governor and Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Roy Barnes as he voted at Marietta Middle School in Cobb County. Like most politicians, he brought his family along to vote which does actually make for more interesting photos. [...]
Spot News: Plane Crash in Lawrenceville
About an hour before I was going to head out for football I got a call from John Bazemore at the AP asking if I could shoot some spot news for him, since he was over at Talladega in Alabama for the races. Basically, a plane crashed into a house in Lawrenceville and killed the [...]
(CD)See You Later
Yesterday I got a call from the AP asking if I could shoot a last minute press conference at the CDC about H1N1 (Swine Flu). It was an unexpected, but very pleasant surprise so I packed up my gear and headed over to the facility located on the Emory campus. The thing about press conferences [...]
Zinkhan: The Conclusion
Last night I got a call from the AP asking if I could shoot another press conference about George Zinkhan up in Athens at 9 a.m. today. Instead of waking up early to battle traffic, I decided to head up immediately and spend the night. Nothing ground breaking was announced at the press conference today. [...]
George Zinkhan found
Yesterday as Brett and I were driving back to his place from Centennial Olympic Park I got a call from John Bazemore of the Associated Press. He said that they found a body near where University of Georgia Professor George Zinkhan’s Jeep was found last week and they suspected it was him. He asked if [...]
Independent learning
There was a story about this tutoring center in Anniston that I shot last week and ran in today’s paper. The kids were pipe’d in by them so I didn’t want to stage shots so I opted for this portrait with the kids as props basically. My biggest complaint with the photo is that the [...]
Joshua Fields, savior of UGA Baseball
I was asked on Wednesday to shoot a portrait of this UGA baseball player. I had some ideas for portraits that were more creative, but when it started raining it became more a matter of trying to make sure the equipment I was using didn’t get fried so I went with something more standard. Georgia [...]
Lightning Fast Action
The conversation between myself and my contact at the AP that occurred earlier this week: Mr B.: Hey Josh, can you shoot the Thrashers game on Saturday? Me: Yes, one thing though. Mr. B.: Whats that? Me: Does it matter that I’ve never shot hockey before? Mr. B.: No, not really. And then there I [...]
