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Sugarloaf Highway in Gwinnett is being extended on the east end by about six miles. The section past Grayson Highway will be limited access. Construction has been going on for awhile so we were doing an update story. Shot these last month but the story just ran today.
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| Near the start of the extension just past Grayson Highway. |
Let me start this post first by saying that I don’t believe any photojournalist enjoys covering a funeral. That said, its part of the job and from time to time we have to do it.
The interesting thing about this funeral, was that it was being webcast from Washington state. Marin had grown up in the area so the church and family worked together to show the funeral on a large screen in the chapel. The service may not have been right in front of me, but the emotion was.
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| Kristie Layne holds back a tear during the webcast of Marin Morrison’s funeral at the Ivy Creek Presbyterian Church in Lawrenceville Wednesday. |
Last week I shot a story about this house that had been foreclosed on and then caught fire. This all happened early last year so the house has been sitting all messed up for months and no one has done anything about it.
I got lucky because while I was taking photos, these neighbors had just arrived back from a trip and were walking around their driveway as they brought stuff into the house. I really only wanted a shot of them in the foreground carrying stuff while the nasty house was in the background, but then the guy stopped and turned and just started looking at the house. Didn’t really say anything, so you could tell he was frustrated about having to live across the street from it.
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| Andrew Parr looks across the street from the driveway of his Dacula home at a foreclosed home that was damaged by fire. The home has been sitting untouched since the fire, which occurred July 5, 2008. |
Covered a basketball game tonight for the paper between Meadowcreek and Brookwood. Despite a fairly terrible football program, apparently Meadowcreek’s basketball team is pretty good. They won, but it was a really close game.
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| See, even during fierce competition there is time to come together and love one another. Ok, is it just me or does it look like they are about to kiss? |
Sunday night someone threw a large rock through the front door of the Lilburn Coop and stole $200 from the cash register. The employees said it was ironic, because if the person who did it had come and said he needed help they probably would have just given it to them, and they’d still have their front door.
I got there just before the glass guy got there so I got lucky and was able to actually show him putting in new glass. You’d be how surprised how difficult it is to show missing glass in a photo after the shards have already been cleaned up.
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| Don Forrester, a volunteer, watches as Mark Dunn of Binswinger Glass replaces the glass in the front door of the Lilburn Co-op after it was shattered by a rock during a burglary Sunday night. The thief took $200 from the register of the co-op. |