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Portfolio
Remote Control Time-Lapse from fair
This remote control time-lapse captures the Douglas County, Kansas Fair. Images were captured using a Nikon D300 in intervalometer mode stabilized by both a Meade telescope head (rotating images) and a Bogen magic arm (static images). Audio was captured using an Roland Edirol recorder. Software: Photo Mechanic, Quicktime Pro, Final Cut, Garage Band.
KU National Championship Coverage
For the second year in a row, LJWorld.com has earned the Associated Press Managing Editors award for online convergence.
Kansas’ Biggest Rodeo
In August of 2007, I packed up headed out to Phillipsburg, Kan., home of Kansas’ Biggest Rodeo. The resulting story, audio slideshow and photo gallery show that Phillipsburg is an anomaly in western Kansas, where the state’s population is declining and aging.
24 Hours in Lawrence
24 Hours in Lawrence was a collaborative multimedia project between the www.ljworld.com and the Lawrence community. The project won the Most Innovative Multimedia Storytelling Award from the Newspaper Association of America Digital Edge.
Old German Baptist Brethren
In May, I was invited out to the Beeghley family farm where around 5,000 Old German Baptist Brethren converged for an annual church conference. The quick weekend multimedia project includes video and photographs.
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 solutions to Southeast Kansas’ mining-related problems.
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.
