I grew up in Selah. It’s the place I learned, returned and now raise a family within. This year, I had the honor of covering my hometown parade. It was an emotional day because it was my last weekend representing the Yakima Herald-Republic as a photojournalist and having my work on parade, literally. It’s a bit hard to describe, but some photojournalists try to be a fly-on-the-wall, observing and documenting moments to help tell a story while...
Monday afternoon, this small bird snuck in through an open door at our house and picked my office window as his spot to attempt an exit. I took pictures for about five minutes on a variety of settings, then trapped him between two of my hats and let him go outside. He flew away just fine, none the worse for wear as far as I could tell. I went overboard on the saturation and contrast, just to try it out, and this is what I came up with. If nothing else,...
I found this gem cleaning up after last weekend’s Valley Workshop, in which six high school students spent Saturday learning journalism by doing journalism from the staff at the Yakima Herald-Republic and other professional volunteers. My student, Bianca Daniel, a senior from Eisenhower High School in Yakima, covered a community yard sale in Zillah. Two of her photos from the event made Sunday’s Homefront section and several more are...
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