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OU Men’s Road Comes To An End March 30, 2009 | Leave a comment Well, with the help of Blake Griffin the University of Oklahoma men’s basketball team had a great run to the NCAA Elite 8. I missed out on covering them in Kansas City, but was able to pick up with them in regional action played in Memphis. The Sooners had an impressive win over Syracuse, but just did not have... Read More

Spring Snow March 28, 2009 All week the weather forecasters have been telling everybody to stay inside Saturday because of the snow. People seem to have listened. Sarah Phipps, Paul Hellstern and I spent the day looking for folks out in the snow in the Oklahoma City metro area and didn’t find many. Truthfully, we didn’t find a whole... Read More

Iron Thistle Scottish Heritage Festival March 27, 2009 Every now and then Doug Hoke, our director of photography, will leave the office to take photos because we are short-handed or he just wants to remind all of us that he’s not just our boss, but a pretty darn good shooter as well. Last Saturday, Doug photographed the Iron Thistle Scottish Heritage Festival and... Read More

Cpl. Gary L. Moore March 25, 2009 As photographers, we have very little control over what happens to our pictures after we turn them into the newspaper. Often they are cropped or not even run at all for a variety of reasons, some reasonable, some not. What I like about this blog is that we can show you the photo as we think it should be seen.... Read More

Going bald March 23, 2009 On an average assignment, I’ll usually turn in 3-4 pictures to our archive system, called Merlin. Rarely is there room in the paper for that many pictures. Here’s a picture that I took this Sunday that didn’t make it into the paper, but I thought it was a nice moment. Read More

OU men in Kansas City March 22, 2009 Bryan Terry has been covering the OU men’s basketball team during the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament in Kansas City. Here’s some photos from the team’s win over Michigan to make it to the Sweet Sixteen. Both of our regular readers should note the new caption box feature on our photos here. To see a... Read More

Take My Picture March 18, 2009 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... 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