Today started in a way that I wasn’t expecting. We heard on the scanner about some sort of accident down on the reservation, police were going down a ravine by a bridge and we thought that would make a pretty good story so myself and a reporter went down to check it out. When we finally got out there we saw the police parked by the bridge and so we started walking down the middle portion of the bridge that separates north bound and south bound traffic. When we got a little way down I saw a few firemen and policemen down by the river, and then one of the tribal police officers told us to get back to the road. It appeared to be a suicide and we don’t report on those.

After getting back to the Press, Shawn went off to cover a couple stories and I drove around looking for stand alone photos. During my driving around I got a call asking me to look out for guys with food trucks and to get a photo if I could. It turned out that just before I got the call I passed a guy waving a sign for his food truck and so I went back up the street and got the photo I needed. I still hadn’t gotten a stand alone photo that I liked though, so I drove around a little more and I saw an older lady walking with a broken umbrella and I thought that would be perfect, I parked shot the photo and got her name so we could use it it was just the image I was hoping to get too! I took another image like it as well, just of a different person and when I got back to the press, she had emailed and revoked her permission for me to use her photo, that had never happened before… but she sounded like she was in a bad mood when I talked to her so maybe she was just having a bad day.

After I got the call from Shawn about the lady and her photo, I was asked by a reporter if I could take a photo for another In Person story, and that he would be there any minute. I was a little on the spot but I made due and it didn’t look too shabby. Over all, today was a good day.