On the night of October 6, 1998, gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, 21, found himself at The Fireside Bar & Lounge. It was a local watering hole for college students and Laramie locals that featured a tall neon … Read More
In April 1997 Life Magazine’s Director of Photography David Friend called out of the blue asking me to photograph comet Hale-Bopp, which at the time was streaking through the sky above sparsely populated Wyoming, where I had lived and worked … Read More
A recent move has unearthed the dormant sand collection I keep inside my grandmother-in-law’s vintage American Tourister blue train case. The satin-lined case, complete with a fancy little mirror on the inside, is stuffed from top to bottom with bubble … Read More
There is an adage of late in the photography world; the best camera is the one you have with you. I’m not exactly sure where this pithy saying came from. It’s not something I recall quoted from the mouths of … Read More
Sharp-eyed striders walking the Greenbelt in Garden City this summer most likely saw, if they were looking up that is, a hefty quantity of gray paper nests hanging from the cottonwoods that line the riverbank. Crafted by bald-faced hornets, these basketball-sized, … Read More