James Brosher Photography

Portfolio website for James Brosher, a Bloomington, Indiana based editorial and wedding photographer specializing in action, documentary, and portrait images.

Features

‘Big Boy’ paint job

On Labor Day I was the only photographer on the clock so my job was to go feature hunting to fill our hole on page A3. I was on my way to work when I passed Holliday Park and noticed a crew of folks with paint brushes working on the ‘Big Boy’ Union Pacific train. The photo Gods were smiling upon me. There are some days when it’s incredibly hard to find a feature photo in Cheyenne, but Monday I just so happened to stumble upon one.

Alex Frye, 13, carefully applies a coat of black paint around identifying numbers on the Big Boy train on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011, in Holliday Park. Members of the Sherman Hill Model Railroad Club spent the day applying fresh paint to the train, one of eight existing 4000-class Union Pacific trains still in existance today.
Alex Frye, 13, carefully applies a coat of black paint around identifying numbers on the Big Boy train on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011, in Holliday Park. Members of the Sherman Hill Model Railroad Club spent the day applying fresh paint to the train, one of eight existing 4000-class Union Pacific trains still in existance today.

Water to the Garden

Sculptor Tim Upham from Fort Collins, Colo. surveys his sculpture, "Water to the Garden," on Friday, Sept. 2, 2011, at the Paul Smith Children's Village at the Botanic Gardens. The sculpture, comprised of 75 lodgepole pine trees, will be on display through Halloween.
Sculptor Tim Upham from Fort Collins, Colo. surveys his sculpture, "Water to the Garden," on Friday, Sept. 2, 2011, at the Paul Smith Children's Village at the Botanic Gardens. The sculpture, comprised of 75 lodgepole pine trees, will be on display through Halloween.

Camping at the library

I will occasionally hit up the library when I need a feature for the newspaper. Tonight they were having a camping event with crafts and s’mores. This isn’t the shot that’ll run in the newspaper on Friday, but it was my favorite. It’s kind of an in-between moment as some of the kids waited their turn to roast marshmallows on the fire.

Kids wait in line to roast mashmellows during a camping event on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, at the Laramie County Library.
Kids wait in line to roast marshmallows during a camping event on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, at the Laramie County Library.

Getting medieval in the park

I do a lot of feature hunting, meaning I don’t have many assignments so I have to go found something visually interesting going in on the community. I was trolling – driving around aimlessly hoping to catch something interesting – when I spotted something crazy going down in one of the city parks. I found a group of people dressed as medieval warriors fighting with sticks and axes. Of all the trolling I do in Cheyenne, this was by far the strangest thing I have ever found.

John Glidewell stares down his opponent as he prepares to strike during a fight practice for local members of the Society for Creative Anachronism on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, in Holiday Park. Group members fight in medieval armor and are not allowed to use limbs after they are hit by a weapon.
John Glidewell stares down his opponent as he prepares to strike during a fight practice for local members of the Society for Creative Anachronism on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, in Holiday Park. Group members fight in medieval armor and are not allowed to use limbs after they are hit by a weapon.