James Brosher Photography

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Blockheads playing cornhole

Niles Family Fun Festival
Josh Martinez, left, wearing a Steve blockhead from the Minecraft video game, reacts after scoring in a game of cornhole with Aaron Smith, dressed as a Creeper character from the same game, during the Family Fun Festival on Thursday, July 3, 2014, in Niles. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

Saint Mary’s College Jane Austen Dancing class

Jane Austen Ball
Saint Mary’s student Annie Kennedy, center, dances with a classmate during a Jane Austen-themed ball on Thursday, May 1, 2014, at St. Paul’s Memorial United Methodist Church in South Bend. Students from the Jane Austen Dancing class at Saint Mary’s dressed in period costumes and performed dances they had practiced throughout the semester. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Jane Austen Ball
Rosalind Clark, a Saint Mary’s English professor, watches from the front of the room as her students perform a period dance during a Jane Austen-themed ball on Thursday, May 1, 2014, at St. Paul’s Memorial United Methodist Church in South Bend. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

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South Bend fire outtake

I was photographing a fire over on South Bend’s west side Monday when I spotted this neighbor sitting on his porch. Really liked the textures on the roof and side of his home. It’s a frame that doesn’t really have much to do with the spot news I was there to cover, but couldn’t resist shooting it nonetheless.

Brookfield Street Fire

Apparently birds don’t like me

Last week for the second time in a year, I was attacked by a bird. (The first attack came as I was wearing a GoPro.) I was on a community assignment to photograph a gentleman who will be showing birds in an upcoming bird show. I started shooting as he moved to take Tangerine, a nine-year-old Catalina Macaw, out of a cage. As he did this, the bird charged my camera, hitting the lens and falling to the floor. The bird’s wings were clipped meaning it could only lunge at me. The bird and I were both fine although I nearly had a heart attack. I was able to get off a couple frames (below) somehow during the attack. Not sure what it is about birds, but they sure as hell don’t like me.

Allan Annis

Allan Annis

Arctic weather returns to South Bend (did it really ever leave?)

These days South Bend is feeling more like Siberia. If the substantial snowfalls we keep getting aren’t enough, we are also constantly dealing with sub-freezing temperatures. For the second time this year, the city of South Bend declared a winter weather emergency. And this is coming from a city that is most certainly accustomed to big winter snowfalls. It’s hard to stay creative from a visual standpoint in these arctic weather conditions, especially since I’ve been shooting the same photos in essence since late November. Spring cannot arrive soon enough.

Winter Weather
Erika Cruz, a South Bend Parks and Recreation employee, uses a blower to clear snow off the sidewalk in front of The State theater on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, in downtown South Bend. A frigid and snowy month continued as temperatures plunged below freezing yet again. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Winter Weather Returns
Drivers gingerly work their way south on Indiana 933 past the Chase Tower on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in downtown South Bend. Sub-freezing temperatures and blowing snow returned to the Michiana area yet again. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

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