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Zakoya Martinez-Florez, 5, (bottom left) Anastasia Martinez-Florez, (center), 6, and their friend Alice Barham, 4, collect water from the roof and the pool in background as they play in the rain outside their home during showers in the metro on Monday, August 18, 2008. By John Clanton, The...

Well, I think John Clanton may have started something with his “Hey, take my picture!” entry. Fellow staff photographer Steve Gooch asked me to post this photo for him. These girls were at a youth football practice at Millwood school and asked to have their picture taken.

Carl Albert High School football player David Oku poses for a photo at Frontier City where he works in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, July 16, 2008. BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN Photographing football is one of the things I really enjoy doing. Every summer when we start to work on our football...

Newspaper photographers have interesting days, we could go from a rodeo to an arts and crafts show or from a church service to a motorcycle race in a single afternoon. One of the constant things that we hear, no matter what the assignment, is people shouting “Hey, take my picture!” Over the...

We have lots of tours at OPUBCO and one of the highlights used to be the photo department. I say used to be because in the age digital photography, our office looks pretty much like everyone else’s, a desk and a place for a computer. Gone are the cool things we used to show, the rotating doors...

Well, I now sit here ready to begin a new process in the profession I chose as my career called photojournalism. I began my journey to this point nine years ago, after I graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma. I have worked at four newspapers in this short amount of time, and I have...

Many times in the newspaper business, there just isn’t enough room. Since November 2005, when I started at The Oklahoman, I’ve put almost 4,300 pictures into our archive system. Roughly 1600 have never been published. I’m excited about another place on the website where I can publish...

If you have stumbled upon this page, you have found the new blog of The Oklahoman’s Photography Department. I’m Nate Billings, one of our staff photographers. We are all first-time bloggers, to my knowledge, and are excited to get started. Here we hope to post some of our favorite photos,...