Bryan Adams

I’m working on a local newspaper, actually I’m working on two local newspapers. Most of the assignments are indeed local stuff. Thankfully cool and different assignments show up such as covering a Bryan Adams concert last week. One of the papers I work for happens to be in a city that has a big arena. [...]

Best in show

Last Saturday I was sent out on an assignment to shoot some pictures from a dog show. Walking into the show room I was outraged right away. I was baffled by how much the owners of these dogs are into it. I’m on the verge of calling it animal cruelty.
My attitude towards this whole thing [...]

Lots of portraits

A significant amount of the assignments I shoot are portraits of some kind. These assignments are prone to become boring and routine work. The challenge is to make them interesting and tell something about the people. To be honest I hate those arranged and smile type portraits like this one.
You can’t really tell much from [...]

Weekend sports

I’ve shot 4 soccer games so far. That’s twice as many as I had shot before starting on the newspaper. It’s actually a lot of fun, but a lot of turf to cover. I’m going to get a Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM as quickly as possible!

Shooting soccer with a 70-200mm f/2.8L USM with [...]

This was a first

One thing I had never taken pictures of prior to starting on the newspaper, was car accidents. This happened on the first day at the job as well.
I was doing an assignment - an outdoor event - and all of a sudden the sound of sirens broke through the ambient sound of cars driving by. [...]

Day one!

My first official day at the paper turned out to be a busy one. I ended up doing 8 assignments that day. Now, this is local newspapers I work for which will also be represented in stories and pictures I post. So basically I’m shooting a wide variety of stuff.
It appeared a construction site was [...]

An introduction

I’ve always had an interest in photography. Thinking back to when I was a young kid, the photographs in the papers and magazines have always been grabbing my attention.My first camera was a Ricoh KR-10 Super, an SLR that I got from my father when he bought a new camera. I gotta be honest though.. [...]