Cutting through the competition
Competition draws crowd to see who is the fastest tobacco cutter September 3, 2009 – Lancaster, Kentucky, USA. Alvin Stamper, 26, defends his title as the tobacco cutting champion at the Garrard County Tobacco Cutting Competition. At the end of every summer during the tobacco harvest, men gather to compete against each other to see [...]
The 675-mile-long Yard Sale
The World’s Longest Yard Sale, now in it’s ump-teenth year, wound it’s way through central Kentucky last weekend. I’ve shot it a good many times for the Herald-Leader in years past and am never disappointed at the visuals that can be found in addition to some killer bargains. So this year, I covered the sale [...]
The General
I spent the day at Keeneland focusing on the favorites for the Blue Grass Stakes. Naturally, they didn’t win. An underdog named General Quarters, owned and trained by Tom McCarthy, won the Blue Grass Stakes and was headed for the Kentucky Derby.
Keeneland blossoms into spring
This video was shot with the Canon 5D Mark II on a beautiful morning before the Keeneland Race Track 2009 spring meet was to open in Lexington.
The Road to Recovery
In February, reporter Amy Wilson and I took a day-long road trip into Western Kentucky to see how folks were coping two weeks after what was perhaps the worst ice storm in modern history.
Santa Train
This is the 67th year that the Santa Train has ridden a 110-mile route through Appalachian towns in eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia handing out toys and gifts to thousands of rural families before culminating in a parade in Kingsport, Tennessee. The Santa Train was originally created as a means for the Kingsport and tri-state [...]
Canon 5D Mark II tip sheet
In this pdf you will find tips and do’s and don’ts based on my experience with the Canon 5D Mark II. It is current with the most recent firmware upgrade, 1.1.0.
Two Great Horses, One Great Rivalry
This is a project I did with the Herald-Leader’s Linda Blackford ahead of the 2009 Kentucky Derby. I shot the video interviews, collected some great archive photos from the Herald-Leader photogs, and produced it using Vuvox.
Tutorial: Using QuickTime to build your time lapse
Want to know the easy way to build a time lapse from your hundreds of still images? It’s a piece of cake with QuickTime.
The Turtle Man
It’s been a lonely world for reptiles since the Crocodile Hunter died in 2006. From the unlikeliest of places comes a hopeful replacement, the Turtle Man of Kentucky.
[re]Finding some Christmas cheer
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Since the holidays are here and since videos have this wonderful shelf life on the internet now, I thought I would resurect this piece I did last year on the Mistletoe Hunter of Boyle County, Kentucky.
Review: First take on the Canon 5D Mark II
Let me make one thing perfectly clear: This is not a video camera. So don’t expect it to do the same things your video camera does. It is, however, one killer full-frame DSLR that shoots some spectacular hi-def video. And that’s enough for me.
