New London - I guess I took too long getting the lights adjusted. Well until we get a front yard to impale bodies on, Em and I have kept up our annual tradition of making Jack-o-lanterns. We went back to tradtional styles this year. This has always been one of my favorite parts of Halloween.
Mine is on the left, and Em's is on the right.
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2002...I am unsure about what happened to 2003...maybe its on film
Friday Oct. 26 - Norwich - It is hard to think about Christmas before Halloween, but they light the Norwich City Hall with so many lights that I believe that you can see it from the Moon. They were hanging light strings on the clock tower Friday.
Saturday Oct. 27 - Salem - Salem's Apple Fest. This was my final assignment today after driving to East Hartford for a half hour of cross country (which some days feels like driving cross country), then onto Groton less than an hour later for a ceremony that thankfully was not over. Then finally onto Salem (another 3/4 of a hour away) for the Apple Fest. Most of the goodies were already sold out and they were getting ready to shut down. So I pulled out the pictorial. This is not all that exciting a photo, but I still like it.
Ledyard - Back to Friday for this one. Ledyard High School had their game ball delivered by Army helicopter during a prep rally. I have always liked air shows so it was fun.
Tuesday Oct. 23, 2007
Niantic - These are photos from my assignment this morning. The story was about 2-year-old Zander Petry. Zander is undergoing treatment for cancer. He recently had one of his kidneys removed. He was having a good day today, and was your average rambunctious two year old. He became curious with my camera. I let him look through it and play with the buttons. Pretty soon it was around his neck and not mine. I also forgot to take it off of the high-speed shutter drive setting. Zander took well over 200 frames before I got my camera back. I would have posted one but they were all of the outer wall of his house. His parents and doctors are hopeful that he will recover, though he has a long road of hospital visits ahead.
New London - Tuesday Oct. 23 - You know that you are having a good day of feature hunting when a couple walks by you carryng conga drums. It has been raining stand alone photos over the past few days.
East Lyme - Saturday Oct. 20 - After shooting a football game on Saturday I had to go dig up some art for the Region section for Sunday's paper. We had some AMAZING afternoon sun light and warm weather that made my job very easy. 
Groton - Thursday Oct. 18 - This was from a scholarship awards dinner. I am not a big fan of shooting awards dinners, but some of these are sacred cows and The Day must fly its banner by means of a photographer with a bright flash, just so the attendees will know that the ceremony is being covered. On occasion you can pick up a good shot.
Old Lyme - Saturday Oct. 20 - This is the photo that I was taking in the rain before I saw the rainbow. I love haunted yards and Halloween and my family can attest to that. Halloween is the only night of the year where you can chase little children with a chainsaw...and not get arrested.
Saturday Oct. 20, 2007
Old Lyme - I saw a fairly strange visitor while feature hunting on Saturday. This wasn't as much a passing shower as much as a heavy cloud. The sun stayed out the whole time. I was thinking that it was odd. You just do not see too many rainbows in October. But then I thought some more, and really all you need is water (usually in the form of rain) and sun for a rainbow, so technically you could see one at any point during the year. I felt that the afternoon sunlit foliage really pushed this shot along.
Groton - Trying to shoot and hold an audio recorder is not as easy as it sounds. This is from the homecoming of a local National Guard unit. I decided not to bring the video camera, but the new push is for multi-media. You can hear my camera clicking away in the backgound in the slideshow. I guess my three foot long arms are still not long enough. Or maybe I need to get a boom mic.
Thursday Oct. 19, 2007
Norwich - Hey! who is that idiot up in the tree? Yes, I climbed a tree for this shot. Just some colorful cross country photos from Thursday Oct. 19th. I have shot this meet several years in a row, and tried to be a little different this time. And no, the branch did not break. 
Friday Oct. 12, 2007
New London - Not numb as in stupid, even though violence certainly is. Numb as in not feeling. Working another murder scene in New London. A package store owner gunned down on the sidewalk. Not even God knows why. And I stand to bear witness to a life cut short for no good reason. EMTs in large cities will often talk of "ghosts". Not the ghosts of silly paranormal TV shows, but bearing witness to madness, and the emotional marks that these moments leave behind. Not being able to drive by a street corner without remembering what you saw there.
Thursday Oct. 11, 2007 
Norwich - I was on the fence as to whether or not to post this image. Not because of its content, more than I actually wish that I had gotten a little closer, or a bit more emotion. For a lot of people this photo may seem a little ghoulish. How can I stick my camera in someones face after they have just lost everything in a fire? For my non-photojournalist readers (ie - my family) the answer is simple. A news source will state "Five families were displaced", and you think how horrible. But what has more impact, the number "5" or this photograph? It is out of concern that I take these pictures, and I assure you it is not easy.
Wednesday Oct. 10, 2007 
Old Mystic - Amy Monk cleans apple press racks at Clyde's Cider Mill. Clyde's was founded in 1881 and has been family run ever since. Amy is B.F. Clyde's great, great, granddaughter. It seems that I always get here just in time to see the crew cleaning up. One of these days I will arrive early in the morning and watch the process of making apple cider the old fashioned way. Should be thrilling!
Tuesday Oct. 9, 2007
Griswold - This is just a found feature of a painter that I passed on the roadside today. I enjoy photographing people being creative. So much so that I think that it is starting to annoy my editors. I will not be able to submit another photo of an artist for over a month now. Maybe tomarrow I can find a musician, or someone fishing...
Saturday Sept. 29, 2007
Groton - This past Saturday was a busy day for me. I wanted to post a "day in the life of" and run a play-by-play, but did not have the time...go figure. Above is my attempt at a different photo of the third visit of the Explorer of the Seas, a cruise ship that has been visiting New London this year. This family is at my favorite pasta shop in Groton, Paul's Pasta Shop. Great, great, food.
Norwich - This was from a re-dedication ceremony at the grave site of a faily unknown, but historic abolitionist. Here a local minister blesses the ceremony. 
Niantic - Three more payments and its all mine! If the day had not been busy enough, a charter fishing boat hit a rock and took on water in Niantic Bay. 28 passengers were taken to safety. The boat was re-floated at high-tide, and is under repair to the best of my understanding.
"Hi Mom, yea, my boat sank!" One of the passengers admires the pile of life preservers.
