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Telly Awards
In a sign of the changing times, a photographer shares in winning television awards…..Go figure.
I shared in two Telly Awards for photographs and video produced for Free State Studios, a division of The World Company, which also owns the Lawrence Journal-World and Sunflower Broadband. The awards program, now in its 29th year, honors video [...]
Mining’s Legacy: A Scar on Kansas
This in-depth multimedia report explores how coal, lead and zinc mining in southeast Kansas left the land and local residents scarred and poisoned with pollutants. The report garnered the top prize in the 2007 Associate Press Managing Editors Online Convergence Award. After Mining’s Legacy was published, state and federal officials began looking for [...]
24 Hour Time Lapse
This 24-hour time-lapse of downtown Lawrence, Kan., captures Massachusettes Street from midnight of May 10 to midnight of May 11, 2007.
Free-Range, Organic Egg Farm
A collection of photographs of the Bauman family organic chicken farm near Garnett, Kan.
Zapatistas
A collection of photographs from my time spent living and working with a Zapatista community in Chiapas, Mexico.
Kansas Rattlesnake Roundup
A collection of photographs from the Rattlesnake Roundup in Sharon Springs, Kan.
Super Rat Machine Works Design
One of the best things about working in the creative industry is the luxury of being surrounded by amazingly passionate people. One of those people is Phil Wasson. I’ve known Phil for more than a decade now and his craftsmanship with all things metal is next to none. Over the years, I’ve [...]
Do It Yourself Lightbox
Professional product photography is one of the most overlooked aspects of running a successful online business. Bad photography can loose you sales. Good, clean product photography can increase sales. Read more for a professional product photography solution on a very tight budget.
High speed mode
I once thought that high speed mode was simply just a camera function for increasing frames per second. I was wrong. It is also a lifestyle, to which I recently subscribed, albeit unconsciously.
During the month of December I…
Traveled to Atlanta for three days for a photo shoot
Traveled to Minneapolis for Christmas
Worked well over [...]
Introducing Graph Paper Press
“Over 1,500 hits in one day?” That was the question I asked myself the day after that I released Visualization, a premium magazine-style theme for Wordpress, a popular online publishing system. Since then, I’ve released Gridline Magazine, Gridline News, and Gridline Lite to help feed the beast.
But, I had to ask myself, do [...]
Gridline Magazine Theme for Wordpress
I’m on a bit of a web design and development kick lately. Earlier this week, I released the Visualization Theme for Wordpress. Today, I’m releasing Gridline Magazine, a modular, minimalist, magazine-style theme for Wordpress that supports a widgetized bottombar and sidebar. Design features include:
All original PSD files, making all graphics easily [...]
Visualization Wordpress Magazine Theme
Update
This theme and many other themes are now available at www.graphpaperpress.com
If you visit my site regularly or irregularly, you have undoubtedly noticed constant design changes, tweeks and dramatic overhauls. Chalk this one up to my obsessive compulsive nature and insatiable taste for modern, clean, minimalist aesthetics. So, after more than two years of [...]
Penn Valley Skatepark
A few sequences of Jeff Sadler at the Penn Valley Skatepark in Kansas City, MO on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007.
From Work to Home to Trails in 15 Minutes
The best thing about Lawrence is that most of my favorite places are within very close proximity to each another.
Shawnee Mission Skatepark session
I live less than 30 minutes from an amazing skatepark in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. I spend almost every Sunday carving the bowls and snapping pics.
North Park BMX Jam
Jesse McCollum, Ivy Melvin, Justin Mann and friends organized one hell of a BMX contest at the Pleasant Valley Skatepark in North Kansas City last night. Hundreds of kids from around the midwest met up for an evening winning some loot thanks to Red Bull.
My Three Favorite Online Magazines
Launched in February 2007, Monocle is a global briefing covering international affairs, business, culture and design. Headquartered in London with bureaux in Tokyo, Sydney, Zürich and New York, Monocle appears 10 times a year in print and is updated constantly at monocle.com.
High Def Web Visuals Coming Soon
In August, Adobe released a beta version of its new flash player. The player will now support Quicktime H.264 compression.
Duluth Minnesota
If you ever have an opportunity to visit Duluth, Minnesota, do it. It’s quite an amazing little city on Lake Superior.
myPhone
With all this blogging going on about the iPhone, I figured that it was time to pay homage to the iPhone’s more capable older sibling: the Nokia 312ob RH-50. The more than 300,000 blogs and millions of comments on blogs about the iPhone makes me wonder if we all have too much time [...]
Online Convergence Award
I’m excited to announce that the mining series that I helped direct, photograph, videotape and multimedia-ize won first place for online convergence in the Associate Press Managing Editors contest for newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. It was a huge group effort, with Mike Belt reporting for LJWorld.com, Brian Powell and Greg Hurd producing [...]
Storytelling Using Google Maps
One of the coolest new features on Google Maps is the ability to create “My Maps.” I geo-tagged photos and 360-degree panoramas to a Google Map from a project that explores the long-term health, environmental and economic-related effects that mining has had on parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Click the image above [...]
Rattlesnake Roundup Resurrection
I’m resurrecting this audio slideshow from a few years ago because, well, it’s rattlesnake roundup season. I photographed and reported this story for the Lawrence Journal-World after thumbing through an events calendar for Kansas. Rattlesnake roundups are under increasing scrutiny by wildlife groups and animal rights activists as studies have found the species [...]