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Protests March 02, 2009 | Leave a comment On Monday, members of Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas came to Oklahoma City and Moore to stage demonstrations. There were a few counter-protesters in Oklahoma City, but in Moore, hundreds of people turned out to show that they disagreed with the church members’ signs.  I photographed both sides of the... Read More

OSU women’s basketball February 25, 2009 Bryan Terry made some very cool photos from the OSU women’s basketball game tonight against Kansas. I particularly like the pic below. Porscha Weddington of Kasas chases the ball between OSU’s Shyvon Spears, left, and Tegan Cunningham during the women’s NCAA college basketball game between Oklahoma State... Read More

Congrats to Bryan Terry February 25, 2009 I wrote a little bit about the monthly AP photo contest for member papers earlier when Jim Beckel and Steve Gooch placed in the December contest. Bryan Terry has now finished first in the January competition. Here’s the winning photo. Stevie Stewart, mother of the conjoined twins Kylee and Preslee Wells who... Read More

Life is Real update February 18, 2009 This Sunday, the next installment in our series about Jim Chastain’s life will be published in The Oklahoman. Recently, I went to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Clinic with Jim and his wife, Leann. Some of my pictures will be from that trip when Jim got good news about his cancer. Here are a few more pictures. Jim is... Read More

Lone Grove Tornado February 12, 2009 So far, at least eight people, possibly nine, are dead after a tornado moved through Lone Grove, Okla., Tuesday night as part of the rare February severe storms that struck our state. Usually after a big news event, I feel like writing something about what it was like for us as photographers or how hard we worked... Read More

Storm Damage February 10, 2009 When ice and snow storms hit the metro area a few weeks ago, Nate Billings wrote that when the meteorologists tell everybody to stay inside, that’s our cue to go outside. The same is true with severe storms and tornado damage. Here’s just a few pictures from the storms around Oklahoma City and Edmond. A... Read More

Best seats February 09, 2009 It would be hard to argue that photographers don’t have the best seat in the house for Thunder games. Our photo passes give us access to sit on the baseline. Last night, for example, I sat in front of Aubrey McClendon. We work hard to get good pictures for the paper, and the floor can get painfully hard after... Read More

Unpublished December 31, 2008 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