Bison in the snow
It seems like all I did at the end of 2014 was wait for snow. I spent the better half of last year working on a project about the bison...
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Public days at the auto show
Covering the annual Chicago Auto Show is a little strange. For the first few media preview days we spend the time darting from unveiling to unveiling, competing with crowd of...
Done with dibs
The first time I saw a dibs marker I thought for sure it was joke. I moved to Chicago in the month of January and we were hit with a...
Snow monkeys
Animal assignments are and always have been my favorite assignments. So I was thrilled yesterday when I got assigned to photograph the media sneak preview of the new Regenstein Macaque...
Goodbye Governor
On Monday the newly elected Bruce Rauner will be inaugurated as Illinois Governor after defeating Gov. Pat Quinn in November. Last week Tribune reporter Ray Long and I had breakfast...
My favorite frames from 2014
As I was looking though all of the images I input at the Chicago Tribune in 2014 (4,511 in case you were wondering) it's hard to believe everything that happened....
Checking in on the Nachusa bison
Earlier this month I traveled out to the Nachusa Grasslands in Franklin Grove, Ill. to check in on the bison after covering their relocation from Iowa earlier this year. A...
A long look at Harsh Treatment
It started out simple enough, with an email from Tribune photo editor Andrew Johnston: "Do you have time later to discuss a project?" he wrote in May. "Probably a month"...
Little moments
Yesterday I was wondering around the ice skating rink at Millennium Park taking photographs to illustrate today's column by Mary Schmich (HERE). I met number of wonderful people while there,...
Return to Ferguson
Back in August I traveled to Ferguson, Mo. By now most people will know what those words mean, but for those who don't: Darren Wilson, a white police officer, shot...