Getting back to my photojournalism roots a bit, last week I was hired by Cork Tree Creative to photograph a press conference with Governor Brian Schweitzer and Ray Stillwell at the old Smurfit-Stone mill site to announce Green Investment Group, Inc.'s (GIGI) acquisition of the site. This is the seventh Smurfit-Stone paper mill acquired since 2006 by GIGI, an Alton, Illinois-based company that acquires and redevelops Brownfield sites throughout North America. (A Brownfield site is an abandoned or underutilized industrial or commercial site that is well-positioned for redevelopment.) Plans for the future use of the Missoula site are ...
On Not Taking Life for Granted – {Personal Post}
As some of you know, I zipped across the country for a few days to my parents' home for Christmas. We were lucky enough to all be together again for the holiday and had ourselves a lovely Christmas together. My brother and I stayed up late Christmas day, talking about anything and everything into the wee hours, munching on cookies in my parents' kitchen. We were startled when we heard pounding on our front door. Who could that be at midnight on Christmas Day? So odd... my brother answered and it was a policeman come to tell us that our neighbor's house was on fire. My brother and I asked the police man if everyone was ok, if they'd ...
Cops in Shops in Missoula
I recently blogged about an event that I photographed Wednesday, the Cops in Shops kickoff event for the state of Montana. The Century Council blogged about it the other day and put up a few photos of the Attorney General Steve Bullock. I'm going to include a few more that I thought were kinda fun. One of the police officers posed with his motorcycle in the beer aisle of the Safeway on Broadway looking very stern (he was such a good sport!)...don't try to fake your age, folks! We also did a few shots with him acting as a cashier checking someone's ID. These may be used on some billboards, too - I don't know if that's a for sure thing or ...