Not too shabby

For Stein Mart fashions or having to shoot on-location, on-the-spot at at strip mall.

Down to the buzzer

Shooting basketball makes me so incredibly nervous. I've only shot basketball at UTC once before, and this time I was shooting on a tighter deadline and shooting for the other school's hometown paper as well. Argh! It is so hard to cover the action of the game well and watch for specific players on both sides at the same time. It turned out alright in the end, despite having a light out in one of the corners to boot.

Skip it

Hooray for children and their fun. This elementary made an exercise club, which looks a lot like gym class, but the smiles seem to come easier after school.

Remarkable

This family built a 10,000 square-foot dream home. The daughters even have a secret door that opens from behind a bookshelf to a third story all their own. "Our home is our hobby," the mother said after taking us through a tour of rooms filled with 18th century antiques, family heirlooms, painted portraits and hundreds of pieces of art, most of it Southern.

Tough

Tough as nails, but still checking to make sure they didn't break one. These girls were incredible. Never seen anything like it. Seems like the referees felt the same way.

No comment

Just nice light at the end of the rodeo.

A binki and a gun

We actually ran this picture of the baby and the gun in the print edition of the paper. Everyone in the production lab dropped their jaws when the DOP said, "Oh, I'm here," and picked this image over a tame one. Hoorah.
My mother referred to February as generally the "armpit" of my year - I've been really down lately. This image made me feel a little brighter.