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More sports pictures March 01, 2011 | Leave a comment If you’ve followed Alternate Crop at all, you’re aware that a healthy portion of our assignments are from sports events. We’re always looking for sports action pictures during these assignments, but getting storytelling images doesn’t stop just because we’re at a game or a match. A player’s reactions in... Read More

Random acts of art February 28, 2011 There’s a tunnel on the east side of the capitol that is decorated with a series of murals depicting different regions and events in the state of Oklahoma. The sand dunes at Little Sahara, wheat harvests, city skylines and Barry Sanders as the OSU running back are a few of the scenes in the poorly lit walkway. My... Read More

Some unpublished sports pictures February 24, 2011 Staff photographers at The Oklahoman covered a wide variety of sports events around the city in the last few weeks, from high school swimming championships to college wrestling to NBA basketball. Here are a few images that were not selected to run in the newspaper. You can see images from these events as well as... Read More

From inside Libya February 22, 2011 2 Show / Hide Archive Comments The following comments are archived from the original publication of this post Tragedy and conflict overseas | Alternate Crop on Mar 13, 2011 @ 10:58 pm Read More

Deployment February 16, 2011 Thousands of people gathered at the OKC Arena and in the Cox Convention Center on Wednesday for the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team’s Deployment Ceremony. We’ve photographed dozens of deployment and return ceremonies in the past ten years, but this was by far the biggest ceremony I’d ever been to. Soldiers... Read More

Pictures I Like-So far this month February 14, 2011 So far this month, Staff photographers at The Oklahoman have put over 1,100 images into our archive system. I thought that seemed like a high number and attributed it to the snow storms. When I looked up the same time period over the last few years, however, we turned in about the same amount in the first 13 days... Read More

The Blizzard Strikes Back February 09, 2011 Staff Photographers from The Oklahoman spent Wednesday morning photographing the second  major snowstorm in the last two weeks. We’ve compiled a gallery of images that you can see by clicking here. If either of you missed the time lapse video we put together of the last major storm you can either scroll down... Read More

State of the State February 07, 2011 1 Show / Hide Archive Comments The following comments are archived from the original publication of this post Beverly on Feb 09, 2011 @ 10:28 pm Read More

Blizzard February 02, 2011 Just before the snowfall started, Nate Billings had the idea to do a time-lapse video of the blizzard from multiple locations. He set up a camera on the ninth floor of the OPUBCO tower at Britton and Broadway in Oklahoma City on Monday night. I braced a camera to a ladder in my garage to get images of the snow... Read More

Winter Storm February 01, 2011 Staff Photographers at The Oklahoman have been out since early this morning getting pictures of the blizzard conditions in Oklahoma City. Click here to see the gallery of images they’ve produced so far today. Read More