In 2014, I photographed a conference where one of the speakers was former NFL lineman Matt Birk. He said the most successful people he knew, athletes or otherwise, were fanatic about fundamentals. When Birk started to play center, his coach asked him to come to practice 15 minutes early. He did, and he spent that […]
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Fourth and Lincoln
My first assignment in my 1983 photojournalism class was to photograph the intersection of Fourth Street and Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, IL. I didn’t understand the assignment. Why are we photographing an intersection? What’s the point? Still, I headed out with my camera and took some pictures that I thought were pretty good. I handed […]
Happy Birthday, Robert
Almost 40 years ago, during an exhausting day, I was taking a break when a man I’d never met came over, put a bottle down in front of me and said, “You look like you could use a beer.” Before the bottle was empty, Robert DiRinaldo and I were no longer strangers. That conversation marked […]