I was pretty desperate for a feature on Thursday. We’ve had some unseasonably warm temperatures in South Bend as of late so I wanted to shoot some people out and about. Luckily my fellow button-pusher Robert Franklin mentioned that the local kayaking club was planning on taking to a stretch of river in downtown. Three members made runs down the river, and I got a few decent action shots of them hitting some waves along the way. One frame from that ran on the front page of Friday’s Tribune, but I liked this frame better as a sort of juxtapose. Hopefully I’ll get another feature out of them before fall, but I imagine I’ll have to avoid kayaking features for a few weeks now.
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Richard Mourdock receives Indiana Right to Life endorsement
Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock stopped in South Bend on Thursday to announce an endorsement from the Indiana Right to Life PAC. Mourdock is campaigning against fellow Republican and incumbent U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in Indiana’s May primary. The winner of the primary will face U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., in the general election.
Notre Dame opens spring football practice
Bertrand survivor Tina Tabler
This is a portrait I shot for the Tribune as part of a series of stories marking the tenth anniversary of the Bertrand Products shootings. Tina Tabler narrowly escaped death when she was shot twice by a co-worker on a shooting spree at the factory in 2002. William Lockey, a 54-year-old shipping clerk, killed four and critically injured Tabler and another co-worker.