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Video and such…

Posted in The Final Edit on Feb 5th, 2010 Comments Off

I’ve been playing around with Final Cut Pro the last 2 weeks. I produced a little piece on Andover track star Moira Cronin and did another for this Sunday with our Sports Editor Bill Burt. It’s a fun program and relatively easy to figure ou…

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A New Age of Photojournalism

Posted in The Final Edit on May 5th, 2008 Comments Off

In this new age of photojournalism, photographers are not just photographers anymore. With more of an emphasis on using the Web, photographers are using new tools, like digital audio recorders and video cameras, to tell our stories. When I got an assignment to shoot a Cowboy Action Shooting event at the Danvers Fish and Game [...]

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An evening with the all-stars

Posted in The Final Edit on Apr 4th, 2008 Comments Off

For the past 46 years, the Salem News Student-Athlete Award has been a showcase for the best and the brightest of North Shore high schools. In recent years, it has also been a time for the visuals staffs at the paper to showcase their skills and ideas. Here’s a look at how this year’s played [...]

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Real games in real time

Posted in The Final Edit on Mar 20th, 2008 Comments Off

Covering the State championship basketball tournaments took some preplanning. The Eagle-Tribune sent six photographers out to cover three state championship games in two states. We had two photographers and a photo editor at all of the games. Just a co…

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A day with Dr. Seuss

Posted in News, The Final Edit on Mar 4th, 2008 Comments Off

My assignment was to photograph a Dr. Seuss presentation at Shawsheen School. Students from other Andover schools read books, acted out scenes from poems and showed photos from the well-known books to the Shawsheen students. As one group was performing…

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Behind the scene of a Valentine’s Day fashion shoot.

Posted in News, The Final Edit on Feb 13th, 2008 Comments Off

I was given the assignment to shoot various outfits that could be worn on Valentine’s Day date scenarios. The idea was to have First Date Boutique in Andover provide outfit suggestions with the themes: “Dinner at a fancy, upscale restaurant…

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First on scene — shoot or respond?

Posted in News, The Final Edit on Feb 10th, 2008 Comments Off

I was taking photos of kids who compete in freestyle skiing at Bradford Ski Area Saturday morning. I had all the photos I needed and was walking back down the hill when a snowboarder went off a large jump and wiped out about ten yards from me. His litt…

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Is the job easier now that we shoot digital?

Posted in Blizzard '78, The Final Edit on Feb 8th, 2008 Comments Off

Getting the right photo that tells the story still takes the same skills. Digital has made lots of things easier — it’s faster and easier to edit your photos and you have a better idea if you have a strong image before you leave the scene. …

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Covering my first blizzard

Posted in Blizzard '78, The Final Edit on Feb 5th, 2008 Comments Off

I had just started at the Eagle-Tribune in the final days of 1977 and just over a month later covered the Blizzard of ’78, which was a big deal for a rookie. I couldn’t leave my house in Salisbury because the road wasn’t plowed, so I …

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Remembering the Blizzard of ‘78

Posted in Blizzard '78, The Final Edit on Feb 5th, 2008 Comments Off

I got up and looked out and could not believe the amount of snow. It was three feet deep with drifts covering the cars in the large parking lot of my apartment complex. There was no way I was going to get out of the parking lot. I phoned in to the news…

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