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Unpublished December 31, 2008 | Leave a comment I sat down today with the idea that I would pick a handful of images I took in 2008 that were never published. In years past I would have dozens of images that were good, but there just hadn’t been enough room in the paper for them. These days, we have so many outlets where we can publish our pictures. We can put... Read More

Red Andrews Christmas Dinner December 27, 2008 BLOG NOTE: If you would like information about donating to the Red Andrews Christmas Dinner or volunteering at the 2009 event, click here for an article with all the info. The annual Red Andrews Christmas Dinner is a tradition in Oklahoma City. And covering the dinner is the traditional Christmas morning photo... Read More

Making Great Photos with Santa Claus December 23, 2008 Santa Claus talks with Sienna Smithson, 2, at Penn Square Mall Friday afternoon, Dec. 12, 2008. Smithson is from Yukon, Okla. BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN Just in time for Christmas, staff photographer Jim Beckel shares with us the story of how he took an uncanny amount of good photos of children with Santa Claus... Read More

The Thunder get their second home win December 20, 2008 I have the dubious distinction of being the only photographer for The Oklahoman to photograph The Thunder winning a game. I was there when they beat the Timberwolves at the Ford Center on Nov. 2 and there for the win last night, Dec. 19, over the Raptors. In between I, along with our other photographers, shot quite... Read More

Obama Merchandise December 14, 2008 Around the time of the election, I noticed there was Barack Obama merchandise everywhere. Button, t-shirts, stickers, hats, anything you could wear had his image on it. I don’t remember seeing that many presidential items for Clinton or Bush. After I saw a table full of buttons for sale outside the Oklahoma... Read More

Owning Sam Bradford’s Bedlam Flip December 10, 2008 We’ve gotten a lot of calls and e-mails about how people can order copies of the pictures of Sam Bradford’s flip by Chris Landsberger during the Bedlam game. The Oklahoman does not sell photos of current college athletes. We do sell reproductions of our newspaper pages. To order a poster of the page from the... Read More

Sam Bradford’s Bedlam Flip November 30, 2008 Some of you may have seen the flip in the air by OU quarterback Sam Bradford in the third quarter of the Bedlam football game between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. It ws awesome to see in person and made some cool pictures. Chris Landsberger captured this series as OSU’s Orie Lemon forces Bradford out at the... Read More

Take my picture, again. November 16, 2008 I’ve gotten way behind on my updates from the “Hey, Take my picture” series. Here’s a couple from the month or so. For anyone just joining our blog site, newspaper photographers are often asked by people to take their pictures while we’re on assignment. For the most part, we are looking for pictures of... Read More

Early Voting November 10, 2008 In January of this year I got an assignment to photograph a little restaurant on the city’s northeast side. I enjoyed talking with the owner, Florence, so much that I went back several times, got lots of pictures and turned the assignment into a slideshow. During the course of our conversations, Florence told me... Read More

OU fans stick around for Texas Tech November 02, 2008 OU looked pretty good against Nebraska on Sunday. And there were lots of great action photos. This picture, however, is the one I find most interesting. As the football game against the Huskers ended, the battle between Texas and Texas Tech in Lubbock was coming down to the wire. Hundreds of Sooner fans stuck... Read More