A weekend in sports.

This past weekend I worked covering the McMaster Mauraders on their way to the Ontario university basketball title and the Hamilton Bulldogs.
This is a collection of photos I took on the weekend from the two games,

Contest Time

The end of the year brings with it a host of contests for newspapers.
They may not as big as the National Newspaper Awards but the Spectator's own photographers' contest is a friendly chance to compete against our peers in-house.
Here are my entries for the news, feature and sports categories.
Above, a car ran into the Big Portions, good Eats Restaurant on Main Street East in Hamilton. Emergency services get lots of calls for "vehicles into buildings" but this one took on a whole new meaning when a car's front wheel broke and the vehicle ended up "in" the building. Restaurant owner Sing Mark was inside at the time and emerges through the resulting hole. The restaurant remains closed after the August accident.
The photo at the left was entered in the feature category. It is a photo illustration for a story on cyber-bulling. The photo is two photos assembled in photoshop.
Below Hamilton Bulldogs A.J. Baines, left, celebrates with Jean-Philipe Cote after Philipe scored a goal against the Chicago Wolves in February.

Saucy Needs a Home

Unfortunately as an animal lover, some jobs are harder then others, especially a trip to the SPCA.
Meet Saucy. She's an eight-month-old cattle dog in need of a home. She's a second generation survivor of hurricane Katrina and has been brought from New Orleans to Hamilton to find a new home.
She may not look like much now but her fur will grow back. She can be found at:
Hamilton\Burlington SPCA
245 Dartnall Road
Hamilton, Ontario L8W 3V9
Main Switchboard: 905-574-7722www.hamiltonspca.com

Soupfest Press Conference

These are two soups prepared at a press conference for Hamilton's Soupfest, a fundraiser for Living Rock's Breakfast Program, January 29 at Liuna Station, 360 James St., N., 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
On hand for the press conference were, from the left, Chefs Ben Curtis and Bryan Gibson from Ancaster's Old Mill Restaurant and Juliette Steele from Burlington's West Plains Bistro.

My Blog

I have created this blog so I can find some space in the on the information highway for some of my photos. Some will be photos I have taken while on assignment for The Hamilton Spectator where I work as a photojournalist. They may be photos that were taken on assignment but due to space restrictions in the newspaper did not find a home in print. Others may be ones that I have taken behind the scenes at these assignments, little vignettes, that I love to take but really do not belong with the story as it appears in the newspaper. Some will just be found situations I have discovered while traveling in and around our Hamilton coverage area on assignment.
The content of this blog is my responsibility. Some of the images are the property of The Spectator.
I hope you enjoy what you find here. All comments are welcomed.