While shooting still photos inside Jackie’s Diner today, I spotted this hawk atop a building in downtown Nashua. Now a hawk isn’t a new sight for those working or shopping on Main Street, but what it was sitting on, made me do a double-take.

The sun, ice and a Canon camera. That’s about all I needed to make this picture last Friday, the day after an ice storm blanketed southern New Hampshire. Everywhere I looked there was a scenic or news picture waiting to be taken.

I’ve been shooting elections since the mid-80’s. Some of those were is tiny old country schoolhouses in rural Minnesota, surrounded by open fields. I don’t remember long lines of voters, just pickups and tractors lined up along gravel roads.

So what would Ben Franklin have done if someone showed him a digital video camera back in the 1700’s? I’ll tell you. He would probably have jumped right out of his knickers!
Franklin was an inventor, writer, diplomat, businessman, musician, scientist, and humorist, but I don’t think he would have found the digital video images funny [...]

I’m sure if I posed the question, “Which is the most comfortable chair?” Dick Russell would have pointed to the one he was sleeping in.

A couple weeks ago, I was helping reporter, Karen Lovett produce an audio slideshow about George Latour, who turned 100 years old recently. While she was photographing George at Rose Haven in [...]