Take My Picture


Posted March 18, 2009 by John Clanton Comment on this article Leave a comment

"Hey, Take my picture!" as members of the Westboro Baptist Church protest outside the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City on Monday, March 2, 2009. By John Clanton, The Oklahoman
"Hey, Take my picture!" as members of the Westboro Baptist Church protest outside the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City on Monday, March 2, 2009. By John Clanton, The Oklahoman

I’ve gotten a little bit behind on the “Hey, take my picture!” posts. To update new readers, photographers hear that phrase a lot. So when we started  the Alternate Crop blog site, we started taking pictures when people asked. This one I took in Moore when the members of Westboro Baptist church were protesting Moore High School.  Nate Billings took the picture below by request at the Oklahoma Youth Expo junior livestock show.

It’s funny, I think most of the time people don’t think we really took the picture.

-John Clanton





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Nate Billings never planned to become a photojournalist. He took pictures as a hobby growing up and worked as an assistant for his father, a...


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