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Is the job easier now that we shoot digital?

Posted in Blizzard '78 on Feb 8th, 2008 Comments

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 [...]

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Covering my first blizzard

Posted in Blizzard '78 on Feb 5th, 2008 Comments

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 [...]

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Remembering the Blizzard of ‘78

Posted in Blizzard '78 on Feb 5th, 2008 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 [...]

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