Hacer CLICK

Winter

2012-01-20T14:28:00.001-08:00

my vantage point.

Occupy Columbus: Day 1

2011-10-11T06:50:00.000-07:00

Rain Rain Go Away: but the cats don't seem to mind

2011-05-04T14:06:00.000-07:00

A community comes together to bury a beloved neighbor

2011-02-05T16:51:00.000-08:00

Story by Alan Johnson
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

When Betty Lou Davis died Jan. 29, her sons had no money to pay for a funeral - not even for a coffin to bury her in.
But Davis, 79, faithful churchgoer in her Athens County community, often told her two boys, "You should trust in the Lord. He will always find a way to get things done."
Turns out she was right.
Thanks to family and friends Davis had a proper funeral yesterday in 106-year-old White’s Chapel Wesleyan Church where she attended. She was laid to rest in a handsome, handmade casket of aged poplar lined with purple cloth and was lowered into a grave dug by her friends and neighbors.

Images by Courtney Hergesheimer

Betty's two sons and sister say their last goodbyes.

Betty's son is comforted by a neighbor.

Neighbors and friends carry Betty's homemade coffin to the grave they dug for her the day before.

Happy Home Owners (so far)

2010-08-09T12:06:00.000-07:00

Juan and I bought our first home in April but I am just now getting around to posting pictures...

now we have room for guests!

and of course I had a garden going before we were unpacked!

the progression..

view from my office :)

16 hours of shooting and 18 hours of production

2010-06-22T03:26:00.000-07:00

lil post

2010-05-26T07:07:00.001-07:00

Juan and I moved, (pictures coming soon) and Peggy moved into our old place!! Doesn't she look happy!

lil lilly pad

Baby Donohoe's Birth Day!

2010-04-27T16:57:00.001-07:00

Baby Girl Donohoe was born this afternoon at 3:37 P.M.
She weighed 8.1 pounds and was 19 inches long.

Many people waited patiently for her arrival

Great Day to Feed the Geese

2010-03-31T15:21:00.000-07:00

Shooting

2010-03-31T15:09:00.001-07:00

So a man went off his medicine and started shooting at his neighbor's houses with a high powered rifle and some hand guns. Luckily no one was hurt.

Up in the Air

2010-03-18T17:14:00.001-07:00

BODY

2010-03-11T14:16:00.001-08:00

ice & snow, ice & snow

2010-02-18T13:56:00.000-08:00

AUGUST IS GONE - mourning lost moments

2009-09-13T20:35:00.000-07:00

A week ago today Juan and I came home from a gathering and Osa ran up to the car, this is normal except that I had put her inside right before we had left. Juan asked what cat I had put inside and we hurried up to the door thinking that I might have let a stray cat into the house. He opened the door.

First we focused on the spot where the TV should have been, and then where our laptops should have been. We were robbed! We walked into the bedroom to find the contents of our drawers on the floor and I let out a cry when I saw my backpack and saw where my new camera should have been, and another cry when I realized my external hard drive was gone. I was nauseous for three days.

We have insurance and everything is replaceable, but the external hard drive had the entire month of August on it that wasn't backed up, including a week of visiting with my family in Portland. That is why I was nauseous. It's been a week and I still can't get over the loss of all those images, I do feel like I am in mourning. You cant reproduce moments, they happen in an instant and thats it. That moment in time is gone.

Luckily I had left my CF cards at work and was able to do a disk rescue on them and get some of the family pictures back, but August is gone.

Peggy's boys

2009-08-24T09:15:00.001-07:00

These are Peggy's kitties, they are super sweet!

Bond O Rama - our rafting trip with fellow photogs

2009-08-24T09:11:00.000-07:00

Sunflowers and a New Kitty!

2009-08-24T08:35:00.000-07:00

The sunflowers have gone wild!

This is our new kitty, her name is Risa and she is just six weeks old.
she came from a box on the not so nice part of town.

Baby Love

2009-07-23T08:34:00.000-07:00

My coworker Jonathan welcomed his second daughter into the world two weeks ago and yesterday i had the privilege of meeting baby Essen. She is small but has the lungs of an opera singer.

Macro Love

2009-06-16T13:05:00.000-07:00

No this is not a garden blog, but I just cant help playing in my garden with my macro on the weekends.

I found about ten baby praying mantises on one of my plants

Echinacea.

Don't be scared it's just my cat, keeper of the garden.

This is one of my sunflowers that is already shoulder height.

string bean.

snow pea.

the first zucchini!

snap dragons, a childhood favorite.

zinnia.

gerber daisy.

Mi Jardin

2009-06-01T18:58:00.001-07:00

the King-Lincoln neighborhood

2009-05-28T14:13:00.000-07:00

don't worry the bird got away

Take me out to the Clippers

2009-05-28T13:53:00.000-07:00

my co worker Jonathan gets shooting advice from one of the mascots

Hat Day!!

2009-05-01T11:46:00.000-07:00

Wild Mustang Adoption

2009-04-21T15:35:00.000-07:00

This is a piece I did on a the The Wild Mustang and Burro Adoption held by the Federal Bureau of Land Management in Springfield, Ohio.

Neighborhood: Milo-Grogan

2009-04-15T13:10:00.001-07:00

Another neighborhood...video coming soon.

in the neighborhood - 5th by Northwest

2009-03-26T14:57:00.000-07:00

another neighborhood project I finished up a couple weeks ago...you can see all the neighborhoods that I've done at www.dispatch.com/wherewelive

Out of Hibernation

2009-03-26T14:09:00.000-07:00

I have been in hibernation since December but I am finally coming out of my cave :)
Here is a little bit of what I have been up to, the first part is when we ditched the snow to celebrate New Year's in Puerto Rico, and then back to the cold.

Merry Christmas (late)

2008-12-26T14:23:00.000-08:00

the neighborhood project

2008-12-01T12:49:00.000-08:00

hand me down dobes

2008-11-28T13:35:00.001-08:00

I didn't think I really got anything from this shoot, it's really hard to get four Dobermans to cooperate, but the more I look at this image the more it grows on me. It was an off moment that worked.

This women is a volunteer for a Doberman rescue organization "Hand Me Down Dobes". And despite the bark they turned out to be really sweet dogs.

First Snow!!!

2008-11-17T12:09:00.000-08:00

Osa wasn't really sure what to think of it all, she kept looking up at the sky and then darting under a bush. She was torn between chasing the snow flakes and hiding from them.

"The Chocolate Nutcracker"

2008-11-14T08:27:00.000-08:00

Tami & Scott

2008-11-12T17:00:00.000-08:00

COLORS

2008-11-06T10:32:00.000-08:00

and I forgot to post Halloween

HISTORY

2008-11-05T15:16:00.001-08:00

Irreverent Cells - Midge O'Brien's Journey

2008-10-30T20:38:00.000-07:00

Midge O'Brien was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998 and refused traditional treatment, including chemotherapy. Now 72, her alternative struggle has become a model for other to learn from.

I first posted this story in May 2008 on my website but I am reposting it here because Midge has asked that I do a follow-up and would like more people to see and hopefully be inspired by her journey.

She is an inspiration for me.

Part 1

Part 2

kitty update

2008-10-29T07:00:00.000-07:00

she is my Halloween decoration

winter seems like it's coming quickly

swing

2008-10-28T11:37:00.001-07:00

shooting swing is a lot harder than actually dancing it

Finally Fall

2008-10-25T14:56:00.000-07:00

yes it has been fall for a while but I haven't had a chance to make fall pictures so today I got the chance at a HS Cross Country meet.

wet wet wet

2008-10-24T18:39:00.000-07:00

I used to like rain when I was a kid, but that was in California when it was hardly ever around.

Not my greatest shot, just an interesting position. That guy must do yoga.

McCain

2008-10-19T13:33:00.001-07:00

Relaxing Saturday Morning -- NOT

2008-10-18T10:26:00.000-07:00

from German school to recycling plant fire...poor kids have school on Saturday

So the fire wasn't all that exciting so I just shot graphically. I will be surprised if the run the pretty pictures, my guess is that only the first one will get in... but that's why I have a BLOG!

Thanks for looking!!

Only a few more games left in the season

2008-10-18T10:16:00.000-07:00

well there are only a few more games left in the season and I couldn't be happier. Friday night football isn't all that bad but its getting colder and in a few more weeks I wont be able to stand it. This is going to be an interesting winter.

OBAMA

2008-10-09T18:10:00.001-07:00

I know it is focused on his hand but thats what I like about it.

Workshop was GREAT!

2008-10-07T08:15:00.001-07:00

www.mountainworkshops.org

these are the professionals I look up to ...

Rick Loomis of the LA Times, Jonathan Newton from the Washington Post
James Kenney the head of the photojournalism department at WKU

it turned out the llama didn't make a very good interview.

I had a blast at Workshop and even better I left the Dispatch an intern and came back a staff photographer!!

the mayor

2008-10-06T09:24:00.000-07:00

Friday nights in September

2008-10-06T09:19:00.000-07:00

cheerleaders

I try to shoot everything but the action

OSU Footbal

2008-09-23T13:07:00.001-07:00

Nothing else exists in Columbus when OSU is playing! I actually liked shooting it more than I thought I would, and its fun because they send four of us... one for each corner.

wind wind wind

2008-09-15T13:54:00.001-07:00

It was windy here in Columbus, trees are down every where and a lot of people are without power, but we didn't even get the full storm, just the tail end of it.

McCain and Palin

2008-09-11T12:21:00.000-07:00

look who showed up!

2008-08-23T12:32:00.000-07:00

This is Osa, she was found by the trash by a neighbor and now lives with me, she is the sweetest thing! Osa means girl bear in Español.

Honeyrun

2008-08-19T12:10:00.000-07:00

Jayne and Becky gave up desk jobs to pursue their dreams of organic farming in central Ohio.