Posted on 28 September 2008
The Mounties and the War Eagles will play each other for the first time this coming Friday night. Members of the community concerned that students from the two schools develop a healthy rivalry put together an event for the kids this past weekend. Both schools’ bands marched up to the stage in downtown Rogers. Then, [...]
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Posted on 28 September 2008
Often, I don’t really notice performances when I photograph them because, well, I’m busy photographing them. But last night 17-year-old Savannah LeAnn Wilbur of Bentonville yanked my brain away from my work with her voice. Wilbur was a contestant in the Miss Bentonville High School Pageant. I was shooting finalists in the contest during the [...]
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Posted on 24 September 2008
Today was one of those days where I got to do something fun as part of my job. Our reporter John Henley was doing a story on how Rogers officials are looking at projections for next year’s budget and what effect those projections will have on potential raises for city employees. Turns out the fire [...]
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Posted on 22 September 2008
On Sunday I had no assignments to shoot so I was cruising the streets of Washington and Benton Counties just to see what was going on. In downtown Rogers I passed by Maple Grove Park and saw some guys playing a pick up game of basketball. The court has four goals, one set oriented north-south [...]
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Posted on 13 September 2008
Last night’s Bentonville High School football game versus Fort Zumwalt, Mo., High School was hit with a heavy downpour during the first quarter that felt like Hurricane Ike had decided to skip its arrival in South Texas and head straight to Northwest Arkansas. In the 12 years I’ve been shooting high school football I’ve never [...]
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Posted on 05 September 2008
I have spent the past nine months working on a project that has become very dear to me. On a daily assignment for The Morning News I met Jenny Voth, co-director of a maternity home in Elm Springs called Compassion House. After spending only a few minutes inside their home, I knew this would be [...]
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