Last weekend, the Chapel Hill News sent me to shoot a local family event. Carrboro Parks & Rec organizes an annual parent-child basketball skills contest. This year’s event took place last Saturday at a local middle school. The gum was a bit dark, but I brought some flashes and took...
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My local paper, theChapel Hill News, ran a very nicely done story, Through a lens darkly, about me a few weeks ago. The reported had done the interview a while ago, so I did not know when to expect it. The day it ran, I brought the paper in only to toss it...
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As I wrote in tim in print | Summer Softball Championship, I had a few photos from the assignment in the paper. I have a few more photos from that game and thought I would share the slide show. The game was a doubleheader, so there was some decent light for the...
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Wired.com interviewed me for an article running now:  Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision.  The story features three of us from Blind Photographers, with interview material and photoss. From the article: “Dejong is part of an online community called Blind Photographers, where similarly handicapped shutterbugs share their work and photography tips....
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As I wrote in tim in print | Summer Softball Playoffs, I had a few photos from the assignment in the paper. I have a few more photos from that game and thought I would share the slideshow.  The game was late, so there was too little light for my lens. I still...
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I had a nice selection of four shots in last week’s paper,  cCLIFF’S CARVES OUT A CHAMPIONSHIP. I had had a tough time shooting the previous week’s playoff game (see Summer Softball Playoffs) as the game started late. This time around, they played a double header and I had good tlight for the first...
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A couple of weeks ago, I shot a local summer softball playoff game. A pair of images from the shoot made it to the paper in Five down, two left in Carrboro Co-Rec. Above, high fives and congratulations end the night after Cliff’s Meat Market won 13-12 over the Chapel Hill Realty Group at Carrboro’s...
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I have had the good fortune to be featured on Eco: On Blindness and the Arts, Simon Hayhoe’s project to bridge academia and the arts around the issue of blindness. The site features a Flash-based image gallery featuring blind artists and related exhibits , projects and institutions. [Because it is Flash-based, I can't link...
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As I wrote in tim in print | Youth Triathlon, I had a few photos from the assignment in the paper. Since these kids were so photogenic and both the weather and my camera were cooperative, I had a number of decent photos that morning. I have posted many of these to flick and...
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As I mentions in A HECC of a Baseball Game, I shot a youth baseball game a few weeks ago. A few images made the paper and I included them in the post. But I had a few more decent shots from the game. So I thought I should share these as well....
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A few weeks ago, I spent the evening shooting a youth baseball game for the paper. The story was highlighting a new regional league. Three images accompanied Players find H.E.C.C. of a success. From the article: Carrboro Recreation and Parks is taking that optimistic approach to its latest cooperative venture, the Hillsborough-East Chatham-Carrboro (H.E.C.C.) Baseball...
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A couple of weeks ago, I shot a youth triathlon for the paper. Three photos accompanied the story, Swim for Smiles Triathlon chases away the rain. It was a fun shoot, though alternately wet and warm. From the article: The event was the first of three planned this summer for the Swim for Smiles Foundation,...
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The 2009 Photoblog Awards are open for nominations. From Welcome to The 2009 Photoblog Awards: You can submit your own or your favorite photoblog sites at http://vote.photoblogawards.com, and your submission will immediately appear in “Candidates” section, where can be found by other members. Once a submission has earned enough valid votes, it becomes a nominee....
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I have officially arrived! On Saturday, I received my first official press pass. It felt so cool. The pass let me into the restricted area around the field. Saturday night was the state championship game for mean’s high school lacrosse. The Chapel Hill Tigers lost 19-13 to the Charlotte Providence Panthers. As little as I...
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The Chapel Hill News published this article, Putter in hand, angling for an A, on Sunday with two of my photos. The event was the annual Golf-O-Rama put on by the honors geometry classes at Chapel Hill High School to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House. Weeks before the first putt, students write a...
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