Category: General Photojournalism

Okay, I will go ahead and say it: there are an awful lot of gift catalogs out there these days in the non-profit world. I am going to take some credit (or blame!) for making that happen, as I wrote the item descriptions years ago for the World Vision gift catalog that went on to become a virtual cash cow for WV. Loved doing it. But then similar catalogs–and item descriptions!–began showing up everywhere.

Fast forward to just today and I get an email from IJM’s Amy Lucia showing me a photo I took in Rwanda as the “cover” photo for the new IJM gift catalog. Of course I think the photo is great. But then I took a look at the catalog. People, it ROCKS. It is THE gift catalog among gift catalogs. So check it out and see if there is something in it you like. I can tell you from having my eyes on the actual recipients and my boots on the ground in the field that it is a good deal and really does make a difference. Go for it.

A few weeks ago I was asked to shoot some photographs at a captain’s practice for the Colorado College Tiger Ice Hockey team. The entire time I was shooting I kept seeing how cool the ceiling of the practice facility was, and how dark it was in there and how interesting the lights were on the ice. I thought it was a great chance to shoot something cool there. So maybe I didn’t get too many great hockey shots…but did I ever get some kind of surreal  looking shots of the players just kind of ghosting over the ice, and it was fun tricking out these images to play that up. At least it’s a different take–and hopefully a good one–on the same old stuff that has been shot thousands of times…very typical of how I would approach a scene: how can I shoot this to tie everything together in a way that perhaps hasn’t be done before? How can I capture something special in an otherwise kind of ordinary setting? That’s what I am thinking here.