Posted in Blizzard '78 on Feb 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
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. Like any tool, it’s just that. A tool. So Photoshop is just another step in getting the image that we see and capture transferred to the newspaper, or Web, … continued »
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Posted in Blizzard '78 on Feb 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
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 couldn’t get to work. But my cousin plowed for the town and had a good-sized truck with four-wheel drive. He offered to take me around the area. Bridge Road … continued »
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Posted in Blizzard '78 on Feb 5th, 2008 No Comments »
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 newspaper to tell the chief photographer that I was snowed in and had no idea when I would be able to get … continued »
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