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a President’s retrospective

We were fortunate to have President Obama in St. Louis to mark his 100th day in the White House. There’s a fair amount of guilt in saying that I’m still exhausted from yesterday’s excruciatingly long day covering the President, given that his aides and traveling press have far longer days. Nevertheless, a 4:30 media preset [...]

Posted 30 April 2009 † erik § everyday art § recent posts ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

a view of Ike afar

The Houston Chronicle’s photography staff is doing an outstanding job covering the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, which came ashore at Galveston this weekend leaving a wake of destruction and thousands without homes or power. I’ve been watching their ongoing slideshows here, here, and here with aerials by Smiley N. Pool even before the storm made [...]

Posted 15 September 2008 † erik § motion § news § recent posts § talent ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

a difficult pursuit to layer


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I’m trying to master layering — a pursuit I’m not particularly good at; a pursuit that is particularly difficult to master.  The attempt here is to capture several elements in one background that communicates *bike race* in a small town. I found this cyclist from Germany just [...]

Posted 15 September 2008 † erik § Uncategorized § motion § recent posts § storyboard art ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

in spring, all things awaken


Awakenings, a small part of a larger project that I’m working on, published Tuesday in the Post-Dispatch after about a month of working on various “awakenings” related to spring. The idea behind the project is simple: In life, there are awakenings of many kinds, ranging from physical awakenings (human, animal, plants, [...]

Posted 10 April 2008 † erik § everyday art § in progress § motion § personals § recent posts § storyboard art ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , ,

LUXE has landed


If you’ve arrived via my Sportsshooter page, here you’ll find an audio narration of the spring LUXE project and how we brought it from concept to publication. There are a few more supporting images that couldn’t make it on the 10-image gallery. If you don’t feel like listening, which I’m [...]

Posted 20 March 2008 † erik § ‡ Comments (8) °

christmas with tuba


Enjoy a quick hit from a Saturday assignment featuring the music of 127 separate tuba, euphonium, and baritone musicians performing Christmas carols at one of the local malls. The audio isn’t that hot because of the ambient noise, but the interviews come through crisp for the small Edirol recorder in [...]

Posted 10 December 2007 † erik § Uncategorized § everyday art ‡ Comments (0) °