Front Page - November 03, 2009

The first snowfall of the season was an obvious choice for front page this week. The morning of the snowfall I went around the corner of the office as soon as I got in to work and took a series of photos of the downtown square covered in snow. I used most of them in the paper and the shot looking down the other main street went on front. The snow was all gone by the time the paper was published due to milder temperatures and rain.

Front Page - October 27, 2009

We were tipped off during the week of a rock slide that had closed a nearby highway forcing residents of a nearby community to take a very long detour to get to town so I sent my wife out with the camera and told her to take 'a bunch' of photos. I wasn't sure what to expect from the scene so when she got back with a number of photos to choose from I was quite happy. This shot was the first one I thought would work out well on front and I used another three photos inside the paper. The road was opened while the photos were being taken, but that didn't change my decision.

Front Page - October 20, 2009

I had heard that part of a local water project had progressed to the point where hydrants were up in a location that had been an empty field and thought it could make for some interesting photos, so I went to check it out. It wasn't exactly as I had hoped, but I took this photo from a low angle showing a familiar landmark in the background to make the point. It wasn't going to be the front page photo at first, but once I looked over my choices I discovered this photo would stand alone and be understood by local residents without a lot of details, which moved it to front.

Front Page - October 13, 2009

This is a front page photo that wasn't originally the choice for front. In fact, I hadn't really had anything in mind for the front page photo by the time I started finishing Page 1. I decided to go through the file of unused photos taken this week and found this shot, an updated view of work being done on the Bridge of Dreams and thought it could stand on its own on front...and that's what happened!

Front Page - October 06, 2009

Another issue with a full colour front page and I knew where I was going to get the photo from for it in advance. The local Midget Rep team are wearing pink jerseys this month to mark October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and games over the weekend were scheduled to show off the new uniforms. I snapped a number of photos from one game and when I downloaded this one - with a bouncing puck frozen in mid-air - I knew it was the photo for front page.

Front Page - September 29, 2009

Knowing well in advance that we were going to have a colour front page made a bit of a difference in my selection of front page photo this week. Red is a colour that often catches the eye in a photo so the perfect photo in my mind required a lot of red in it. The Volunteer Thanks and Recruitment Night I had helped organize for the local hockey team presented the perfect opportunity when the Head Coach of the team presented Herb with this red team jacket. It was the only photo I considered for front and it was snapped early in the week.

Front Page - September 22, 2009

The big story this past week was the installation of a new foot bridge across the Tulameen River. One of the largest cranes in Western Canada was used for the project which turned the job into quite a spectator sport. I was on site and took many photos of the first half of the bridge going in. A friend of mine saw me the next day and asked if I had any photos of the event. He had some from the final phase of the project he wanted to share and one of them ended up on front and another on Page 27. Both ran in full colour as I couldn't see using them in black and white.

Front Page - September 15, 2009

The BC Bull Rider Finals were hosted in town over the weekend and I knew my front page photo was going to come from that event. I usually take a lot of photos of the bull riding to fill the paper and use one of the better shots on front. This year I decided to use a photo of a rider just as he's getting thrown from the bull. It gives a slightly different view of the action and all the other cowboys in the photo watching the rider made this the right choice for the front page.