James Brosher

Happy New Year

January 1, 2012

Wanted to wish everyone a somewhat belated Happy New Year. The new year of 2012 is finally upon us. Also, I wanted to say thanks to everyone who reads this blog thing of mine on a regular basis. I really appreciate the feedback and encouragement. The past year has been interesting, but I’m very much looking forward to 2012. I have a feeling it’s going to be a good year.

Blake Wilson, right, president of C.H. Yarber Construction, and Paul Bartow prepare to hang a lighted 2012 sign on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, from the arch entry to the Cheyenne Depot Plaza in preparation for a ball drop on New Year's Eve. The ball will drop from approximately seven stories high during the count down to midnight on Saturday. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)

Blowing in the wind

December 30, 2011

It’s been a little windy the past couple of days. And by a little, I mean we had wind gusts reported at 90 mph on Thursday. Welcome to Wyoming.

Motorists proceed cautiously past two overturned tractor trailers that were blown over by high winds on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, in the southbound lane of Interstate 25 just south of the High Plains interchange near Cheyenne. Wind blew over the tractor trailer pictured at right around midday on Wednesday followed by a similar incident that toppled the tractor trailer pictured in the background sometime on Thursday morning. For the second day in a row, road signs on the interstate indicated a light trailer restriction for high profile vehicles between the Colorado state line and Cheyenne due to wind gusts higher than 65 mph. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)

Ed Cullen, a City of Cheyenne Department of Urban Forestry employee, surveys a downed tree on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, in front of 1206 and 1208 Cosgriff Court in Cheyenne. High winds toppled the tree onto a car. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)

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A snowman for 27 cents

December 28, 2011

Joe Melia, left, Julia Melia and Stephen Saxer put the finishing touches on a snowman complete with a Mohawk on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, on a frozen pond in Lion's Park. The snowman cost a total of 27 cents to construct: two pennies for the eyes and a quarter for the nose. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)

2011 Pictures of the Year

December 23, 2011

For the most part, 2011 was a pretty good year for me. I got my first staff photographer gig, survived a Wyoming winter, shot a rodeo, dressed like a cowboy for two weeks straight and got the opportunity to work on a long-term picture story. Can’t wait to see what 2012 has in store for me. I put together a complete “2011 Year in Pictures” gallery that includes 100 shots in chronological order. But if you don’t feel like spending 30 minutes looking at photos, here are my 10 favorite frames from this year:

Jack Osborn, left, 10, and Brayden Wiesen, 11, take a break towards the end of the day inside of a chute during the first go of slack tie-down roping on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, at Frontier Park. Several youngsters including the two funneled cattle into chute 9 from 8 a.m. to about noon for slack tie-down roping. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)

Aspen Rewerts, right, a kindergarten student at Jessup Elementary, reacts before hugging Mark Stock, superintendent of Laramie County School District No. 1, after Stock checked her work before recess on Thursday, March 24, 2011, at the school. Stock was teaching in place of Kathleen Blaes-Garcia for the day after Blaes-Garcia won a contest for donating to the Cheyenne School Foundation. "It's been refreshing," said Stock, who taught third and sixth graders for eight years before becoming an administrator. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)

2011 Year in Sports Pictures

December 22, 2011

One thing that I noticed in my sports pictures this year in comparison to years past was how tight I shot everything. Through college and my internships, I usually shot sports with a 300 mm lens on a full-frame camera, and now I’m shooting sports with a 400 mm lens on a crop-body camera. For example, the second image below is not cropped. Equipment along with the fact that our paper encourages us to shoot large faces contributed to the change in my sports pictures. Here are my 10 favorite sports pictures from this year: