The Big Day

Well, election day has come and kind of gone. We blew it out on the Free Lance-Star's website, which was great to see. The web team really pulled it off, and 17 reporters and photographers contributed to the Live Blog throughout the day, editors got everything together for print, and designers pulled off a re-plate for the newspaper no problem.

My day started at 5:30 a.m. with the polls opening.



From there it was back to the office to get things up online for a slideshow and the Voices of Voters videos that would be posted all day. Each photographer went to vote when they caught a break. My precinct was pretty slow in the afternoon.


In the evening, I booked it over to the surprisingly slow polling station nearby and caught them emptying the tabulator. They definitely didn't get the rush they were expecting.


The photographers did a great job throughout the day covering the region, and Suzanne and Pete helped gather footage to put together the wrap-up video.

All in all, for a relatively small staff, they all rocked it!

Election Coverage

The Election coverage coming from the Free Lance-Star Tuesday is going to be a first-time for the newspaper. It's going to involved photos and slideshows updated throughout the day, video voices being updated from morning to evening, live blogging, changing headlines from national and local stories at the polls, interactive result map, a wrap-up video and more. For a small newspaper, it hopes to be some extensive coverage, both online and in print, from words to photos. And what's better than that? There is a bit of excitement about doing it, too. Stop by fredericksburg.com to check out more on Tuesday!

Fall pics

Crowded

I have to admit, I don't like shooting in large crowds much, but covering pieces of history like the Obama rally and Palin rally that happened in Fredericksburg makes it worth it. Here are a couple of photos from Palin's rally on Monday, and the video is online as well too.

A half a game

Something for the paper...


And something just because...

Back Focus

Check out the new blog from the staff of the Free Lance-Star

Hodgson-Rigsbee

My good friend, Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee just posted some new work recently. He's found his own style and lifestyle that I envy.

Online Presentation

So I've been trying to give a kick to some online presentation by building simple Flash interfaces. The way I see it, we have always put effort into some stories to make packages in the paper... why not every now and again online when it fits? Some are my work, some are the work of the fab FLS photogs. Unfortunately, once they run they're hard to find, but here are some links:

Point of Connection - An art show at a local art workshop center with studios and a gallery.

Local voices speak about the economy. There are videos done by Portsia Smith, who can get anyone to talk.

College students talk about the drinking age.

High School Football team pages

Redskins slideshow Has a lot of photos from Mike Morones who goes the extra mile to cover every Skins game he gets the chance too, plus other photogs go every now and again.

Are they done for everything? Nope. But they don't take a long time to put together, and add something to presentation of things that have archive possibilities such as the football shows or combine different medias.