Alternate Crop

In the last 12 days, the War in Afghanistan has affected families close to home, we’ve had swings in the weather between extreme heat and severe storms, OU and OSU started up the football season, students went back to school and grass fires started around the Oklahoma City Metro area....

Staff Photographers covered the USRowing Masters National Championships on the Oklahoma River over the last weekend. You can watch a video of the competition by clicking here, or you can click here to see more images from The Oklahoman’s photography department.

I pulled into a parking space in downtown Perry, Oklahoma on Tuesday afternoon after photographing some minor storm damage following severe thunderstorms the night before. In a storefront window a few doors down from the Kumback Cafe, was a collection of Elvis Presley figurines, including a...

Students in different school districts around the Oklahoma City metro area started school last week. At Santa Fe South Charter High School, students start the year with the Back 2 School Bash. Students and teachers get a chance to talk, look over their class schedules and pick up school uniforms...

Firefighters tried to save George Reich’s home as it was engulfed in flames on Blackjack Lane, Saturday. They ran into his home only to quickly retreat and on their way out grabbed seven family photographs from the hallway wall. They were the only items saved from the home. I found Reich...

This summer three photography students joined The Oklahoman Photo department as interns; Zach Gray, from Oklahoma State, Garett Fisbeck from the University of Central Oklahoma and Ashley R. West from the University of Oklahoma. Friday is their last official day as interns. Here’s a few our...

As you’ve read before on Alternate Crop, I’ve been using our “pool” 50mm macro lens, which can focus closer than my 50mm @ 1.8. For the really close pictures like these (except for the fish picture), I take the lens off and hold it up to the lens mount backwards. Focusing is a little...

Staff Photographer Steve Gooch photographed Komodo Dragons at the Oklahoma City Zoo on Monday. He used an off-camera strobe to light the lizards, while he took the pictures through the glass at the exhibit. Seeing his pictures in the paper this morning reminded me to look back through some of...

This was going to be Dallas Bulmer’s night. They’d planned it for months. Bulmer’s character Crisstopher “The Freakshow” Crow was supposed to take the spotlight during a cage match at the end of a show by Sooner World Class Wresting. Instead, his friends gathered around the ring for a...

I take my daughter to gymnastics class every week. As soon as she walks in and sees the equipment and the coaches, she can’t wait to get her shoes off and get into the gym. At first, it was a very different experience for a group of children who visited Mat Trotters Gymnastics in Oklahoma City...