Geoff Kaufman’s brunch serenade at Lyric Cafe

On a recent Saturday morning, Rick Koster and I took a break between shoots to grab a sandwich at the Lyric Cafe in New London. We got the last available table, and were pleasantly surprised to find that Geoff Kaufman would be singing there. Kaufman launched into a song, and the entire restaurant joined in, […]

Hygienic: New London’s weekend of art

One of my favorite things about the city of New London is the weekend surrounding Hygienic Art’s annual open show. It’s something we cover every year, and this year we went all-in with our video coverage. Rick Koster and I did a longer-form (for newspaper web videos, anyway) preview, mixing a historical perspective with a […]

Lunar Eclipse Winter Solstice 2010 Time Lapse

The weather forecast wasn’t great for Monday night-Tuesday morning, but I decided to stay up anyway to try a time lapse of the total lunar eclipse. I used the built-in interval timers on a pair of Nikon D200s, one with a 17-55mm lens, the other started with a 300mm and a 1.4x teleconverter. My thought […]

Two stories for Thanksgiving

In a funny bit of coincidence, I worked on two similar stories that were published the week of Thanksgiving. Both involved adoptions, and both took place down the road from each other in Waterford, CT. The first was for the news section, a story about a family and the difficulties they faced in adopting two children.

The Long family was gracious enough to open their house to me for several days. By the time I had finished the story, I almost felt like a part of the family. The second story ran in the sports section as a preview to the Waterford-East Lyme Thanksgiving Day football game. Davonta Valentine, a senior on the Waterford team, was adopted a year ago after a difficult childhood.

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Behind the Scenes with the Professional Bull Riders medical team

Blumenthal vs. McMahon: the scene on the street

Richard Blumenthal and Linda McMahon are in the middle of an intense campaign for the US Senate seat from Connecticut currently occupied by Chris Dodd. On Tuesday, the campaigns came to New London for a televised debate at the Garde Arts Center sponsored by The Day and WTNH. My job was to capture the audio […]

Afghanistan deployment affects life at home

My colleague, photographer Sean D. Elliot, has been following the the Herkner family for several months. Jennifer is home with two children while her husband is deployed to Afghanistan with the Connecticut National Guard. Just before the story was due to publish, we decided to put together an online component. So I went with Sean […]

Television column portrait

I had a chance to do some good old traditional studio photography the other day. Nothing fancy, just two lights, a backdrop and a subject. We were launching a new television column/blog by reporter Matt Collette, and we needed an image. (And actually we need it today, right now if possible.) The rest of the […]

90 is the new 70

This started as a portrait project, but turned into something more. The Day photographer Abigail Pheiffer started on a project to shoot portraits of local people in their 90s who still lived a vibrant, active lifestyle. It expanded to include a series of stories by reporter Kenton Robinson. As the project was winding down, someone […]

High School Football Opening Day – New London vs. Montville

In an attempt to expand our popular high school football coverage, I’m going to try to produce two videos each week instead of one. We’ll still do the weekly “game of the week,” adding a mid-week feature. The feature will probably be on a player who we saw in the weekend’s game. This week, I […]

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