No matter what your party affiliation is, when the president comes to town it’s a pretty big deal. Recently I photographed President Obama and Vice President Biden as they visited Tampa together and i’d like to share some tips and tricks with you.
Normally it is  unusual for the President and Vice President to make appearances [...]

Animal attacks always makes news because it is usually does not happen all the time, so when it does happen it is newsworthy especially if there is a fatality. Whether it is an exotic animal  on the loose such as a tiger or monkey, a shark attack or even a fatal attack by the family [...]

I will make this post short and sweet because most of  what I already discussed on in the Traffic Crashes section applies to law enforcement related crashes too. The main thing you are going to have to worry about is the cops. And there will be TONS of them there responding to the scene of [...]

Car fires are something that can make for exciting photos but are generally not newsworthy unless it is not an ordinary car fire. If you are listening to your scanner and you hear units responding to a car fire late at night or in a rural area, make sure you monitor that call. A normal [...]

With the exception of presidential motorcades a SWAT standoff is my absolute favorite thing to photograph. However it can also be the most difficult thing to shoot, even more difficult than photographing the president’s armored limo as it passes through town! We will get into that a bit later but first lets talk about when [...]

As a stringer the most common incident you will probably be shooting will be motor vehicle accidents also called MVAs for short .  However not just any ol’ MVA will make news, the ones that sell well are usually the ones that people die. That is just the way it is, crashes happy just about [...]

Fires and car crashes are a Stringer’s bread and butter, most of what we shoot will be one of the two. In this lesson I will talk about photographing structural fire scenes and how to stay safe. A fire makes for great photos but unfortunately fires usually happen at night making it extremely difficult to [...]