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The Facts from Fiction

The Facts From Fiction

  • Has over 30 years experience working as a photographer and journalist.
  • Has won so many Virginia Press Association awards that he has lost count along the way.
  • Has NOT won a Pulitzer Prize … yet.
  • Spent over a year following the old-school crafting of a masterpiece of a pipe organ by Taylor and Booty Organs. Checkout the story here.
  • Has photographed three United States presidents.
  • Identify as a Klingon named “Mayq.”
  • Built his own lightsaber in a workshop on the planet Batuu.
  • Was in Charlottesville, Va., on news assignment on the day of the riot in 2017.
  • Been pepper sprayed and splashed with acid while covering an assignment.
  • Photographed warriors from China’s Terracotta Army.
  • Served as rear sweep (steering oar) of the 50-foot long 18th century-style wooden batteaux, named “Pride of Rockbridge” and later “Virginia Creeper,” during past James River Batteau Festivals.
  • Served as Army provost under General Maupin on the General’s staff over the reenacting group, Longstreet’s Corps.
  • Had the chance to hold a bear cub. (You should see the claws they have!)
  • Served as pilot, gunner and engineer aboard the Millennium Falcon.
  • Have flown aboard World War II bombers more than three times.
  • Almost fell over laughing when I photographed a governor kissing a baby in a parade while he was campaigning. “Look! … A baby! … I’m gonna kiss the baby as it’s what we do!” he joked.
  • Used a drone to photograph a sea monster in Lake Robertson in Rockbridge County, Virginia, on a past April Fool’s Day.
  • Hiked through the dark way back in the woods as those I was with searched for Bigfoot.
  • Have yet to photograph an actual Sasquatch, although … I did see footprints.
  • May have had a rock (with video of said rock) thrown at him by a Bigfoot.
  • Listened as Coach Hamilton of the Booker T. Washington High School talked about how his basketball players could fly … and know the secret of how the did it.
  • Has NOT run a marathon. Does hold a red belt in American Freestyle Karate, however.
  • Stared down an officer of  the First Order.
  • Privileged to listen (and photograph) as a World War II veteran shared his vivid memories of being in the middle of Pearl Harbor as the Japanese bombs fell.
  • Has been sprayed by a skunk … twice.
  • Sat in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”
  • Learned to respect the natural world from a Cherokee elder.
  • Captured what looked like a ghostly orb on video while doing a story on local ghost hunters.
  • Photographed sunflowers in the snow.
  • Hold the rank of Vice Admiral and serve as Fleet Commander of an international Star Trek fan organization called Fleet 31.
  • Watched a lady (and others) box back against Parkinson’s disease.
  • Fell in love with Staunton, Virginia, while photographing the “Big Dig” when utility lines went underground and sidewalks were bricked. Watching the city change and evolve as a result after cemented that love.
  • Looked a black bear square in the eye from a couple of feet away and lived to tell the tale.
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