Central's homecoming game was great. It is always a nice problem to have as a photographer when you have too many good shots. Several shots are available for purchase on MyCapture.
Beautiful, peaceful, lovely Chippewa paddling...check out the changing colors set to the melodies of Bob Busch and Quinn Pelcher. Thanks to Jake from Buckley's for the boats and trip:)
On Friday football players from Central Michigan University visited the students of Renaissance Academy. It is the kind of story that is simple and light with the possibility of being a photo gold mine!
The only downfall of such an event, kids are trained to stare at a camera. The best pictures are the kind where everyone is doing what they would be if a photographer wasn't standing there. Here are 8 pictures from the day. They are also available for purchase through the Morning Sun website. Photos for Purchase
Today could be the warmest Sept. 24 in 87 years. Forecasters at the National Weather Service office in Grand Rapids are calling for a highs today in Mt. Pleasant of 88, 89 in Alma and 84 in Clare. The record high temperature for Sept. 24 was set in 1920, when the temperature at Mt. Pleasant hit 86. If the forecasts come true, it will be a new record. High pressure is moving east over north-central Ontario, and it's dragging warm, moist air from the south with it. The heat won't last too long, however. A cold front is expected to move through tonight or tomorrow, bringing a good chance of showers and thunderstorms Monday night and Tuesday. After the cooler air moves in, temperatures should return to near normal Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with highs in the upper 60s and lows in the mid-40s.
Truckers from all over the state converged on Alma early Saturday morning -- in a fund-raiser for Special Olympics:
The World's Largest Truck Convoy this year aimed to attract more than 3,000 trucks to a variety of convoys scheduled across North America. In Michigan, convoys -- designed to raise money and attract attention to the athletic program for intellectually disabled people -- were scheduled in Grand Rapids, Lansing and mid-Michigan. Trucks rolled up U.S. 127 from Blodgett Oil Co.'s Petticoat Junction restaurant to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe's Sagamok Shell.
An open letter to Mr. Lahde and the rest of the football pickers:
Go ahead. Laugh all you want. I DO have a firm grasp on the "basement."
It takes a lot of skill to consistently, week after week, year after year, pick the losers.
Oopsie, I thought that's what we're supposed to do. (giggle) I AM just a girl, I get sports all confused in my mind, what with all the makeup and boys in there...
Ok, I'll try to pick the winners from now on...
(Anyone out there wanna help a gal out? I'm dying this year, and so early...)
State police have identified the man shot and killed by Clare Police officers Tuesday night. William C. Scozzari, a resident of the Lone Pine Motel on North McEwan Street, was pronounced dead at MidMichigan Medical Center-Clare after police attempted to question him in an investigation of shots being fired.
Scozzart came at the two officers with a knife and a hatchet, state police Lt. Christopher Stolicker said Wednesday.
Stolicker, commander of the Mt. Pleasant post, said an investigation into the shooting will likely take one to two weeks. Detective Sgt. Jerry Carter's report will be submitted to Clare County Prosecutor Norm Gage for review.
For many years, Pizza King enjoyed the enviable position of being the pizza seller closest to the Central Michigan University campus. A devastating fire heavily damaged the long-time Mt. Pleasant business early Sunday morning. Besides Pizza King, the Hip-Hop Shop and The Store were damaged. All these businesses near the corner of Mission and Preston occupy a special place in the Mission Strip business history. The Store was the quintessential independent convenience store. If location is everything, The Store's location -- right next to campus on the busiest stretch of the busiest street in town -- was perfect. It wasn't very big, and the place was packed with liquor, beer, cigarettes, munchies -- nothing out of the ordinary. But no CMU freshman could come to town, see the big white-and-red rotating sign that said "THE STORE," and not think that somehow, this said "college." The Hip-Hop Shop had been through several incarnations. It was started by a pair of young entrepreneurs who had a desire to turn their love for rap culture into dollars. And Pizza King. In the early 1970s, the only pizza delivery places in town were Pizza King and Pisanello's. Sunday nights, when the dorms didn't serve dinner, those two places pretty much fed the campus. That's when Pizza King commissioned its radio jingle, the same one it's used ever since. Anyone who has listened to the radio in mid-Michigan knows it. People might not be able to recite the phone number, but they can sing it: "Call 7-7-2-9-4-3-5/The best pizza/at Pizza King." Now just try to get that out of your head.
Shots from the Mid Michigan Civil War Muster on Saturday. Page Three on Sunday 16 had a nice three picture package, but there are more shots here. Visit the Photos of the Day section of Photos to Buy through The Morning Sun website to purchase any of them.
It was a neat event and I think more people need to know about it. There is still time, it is going on Sunday as well, so if you are reading this on Sunday...go now, these pictures will be here for awhile.
They ran in Black and White in the paper, which I think looks awesome, the ones here and for purchase are in color.
Mustang Volleyball Invitational - TONS of Photo Play
Sometimes the task of a newspaper photographer is to zip in, get a shot and zip out again. Often we are pressed for time, but sometimes there is time to play and get photos that you can put up on a blog...or even...for sale. Visit the Sports section of Photos to Buy through The Morning Sun website. All the shots here are for sale there, so please make me look good and buy some of the shots. :D
A 57-year-old Oakland County man wanted for allegedly killing his wife could be hiding out in Clare County, police said.
Edward Albert Stenberg of Waterford Township has ties to people in Harrison and is believed to have Googled addresses in Harrison and Farwell before fleeing his Pontiac Lake Road home Sept. 7, Waterford Township Police Lt. Mike Oliver said Friday.
Stenberg is accused of shooting his wife, Laura Ann Stenberg, 46, in the morning hours Sept. 7, police said.
Stenberg, who has an extensive criminal history, is known to have camped in Harrison and has friends with cottages in Clare County and in northern Michigan, Waterford Township Police Sgt. Todd Hasselbach said Friday.
That’s a recurring thought when assignments take me into theaters and rehearsal halls to shoot photos for concert or stage play preview stories that appear in the Sun’s Thursday entertainment supplement, Time Out. There are some wonderful home-grown performing groups in our neck of the woods. They are community treasures, and I get to see and hear them do their things, and call it work.
Most recently the best job in the world put me in Mount Pleasant’s Broadway Theatre, where the resident acting troupe was rehearsing Jeff Daniels’ play, Escanaba in da Moonlight.
I left with a bundle of photos and couple of strong impressions.
First, the stage is a wonderfully detailed and evocative facsimile of a Michigan deer hunting camp. Bravo for the set designers and managers.
Second, the dialogue is important and the lines are consistently well-delivered, but it is the physical acting that takes this production over the top.
John Klak, as Reuben Soady is a master of facial expression, eyes and gesture. Todd Heller as Remnar Soady, David Ouilette as Albert Soady, Lucus Keppel as Ranger Tom and Stephanie Peters as Wolf Moon Dance Soady all bring their characters to life with posture. And nobody tops Paul Funnell, dressed in plaid woolies as jumpy Jimmer Negamanee, who does it all and just never stops moving.
If their antics can’t make you laugh, nothing will.
Escanaba in da Moonlight opens with a sold out special premier tonight, but tickets remain available for performances on Sept. 15, 16, 21, 22 and 23.
Three shots that were close, but not quite enough to be turned in for the paper and one shot that would have been great, but didn't work out.
This shot would have been my absolute favorite, but her face isn't turned towards me enough. So there's a lesson to be learned #4...keep your eye on the ball and you don't get in the paper. ;)
Volleyball is a wicked temptress, the possibility for awesome action shots in a poorly lit gym. It's enough to make a photographer cry...or cheer, depending on the quality of the shot :D
Hi, I'm Ryan. I'm the new photographer at the Morning Sun. I'm not going to get into a whole biography, instead I'll just get to the meat of the work.
On most assignments a photographer will shoot a lot and a very slim margin of those pictures are published. It is part of the work to get as much information as possible, so all these people give their names to some photographer and don't see their pictures in the paper. The internet is the savior of all those pictures the public rarely gets to see.
So, some of the pictures that don't fit in the paper may find life on the Sun Insider, provided I have time and remember. :D
Terry and Marilyn Lueder are in a desperate hunt for their cat, Snowy.
Snowy got out of the Greenville couple's truck when they stopped at Menard's in Union Township to pick up supplies for a remodeling project.
Moments later, when they realized Snowy was gone and returned to the store, it was too late. An employee told them that someone in a red and black extended cab Ford pickup left seconds earlier after picking up the cat.
After taking out classified advertisements in newspapers in Mt. Pleasant, Greenville, Midland and other areas, the couple are not giving up and hope that someone will find Snowy or, if the cat is being cared for, will be willing to give Snowy back.
Anyone with information can contact Lueder at 989-831-5631 or the Morning Sun newsroom at 989-779-6050.
Like Water Drum and Dance teaches an African Dance workshop at Wheatland.
Like Water is AMAZING. This is just a bit of drumming, but their full show features rythmic, intoxicating beats and fantastic dancers up front. This was the first time I have seen them and they are definitely in my top 5 favorite festival performers of all time. A must see group for sure.
Milan Grundahl is 9 years old, and he's apparently learned to save his money. The Mt. Pleasant boy had saved 150 $1 bills, and decided to buy gifts for his siblings at Wal-Mart. But he dropped the bag containing his life savings -- and a surveillance video shows an adult man swooping down to scoop up the bag before Milan knew what was happening.
The sheriff calls it larceny, and has released this video showing what happened:
Workers at Wal-Mart heard about it, took up a collection, and Milan can expect to see his savings replaced.
I have spent the last two days in Biloxi, Miss., for a cousin's wedding. If you think that the gulf is rebuilding after Hurrican Katrina's devastating blows, you haven't been to Biloxi. When I was young, I came here often. Now the clean, sandy beaches seem oily and deserted. All along the coast, property after property sas destroyed. Foundations and shells of houses are overgrown with ivy and graffiti. Signs advertising resorts, casinos and stores lead to empty lots. No one comes here. The people who still live here didn't own the businesses that need to rebuild if the town has a chance. They only worked at those places, so how will this town ever be what it was? Everyone who sees the Katrina aftermath will tell you, you have NO idea how much still needs to be done...that doesn't even cover it. Maybe more about Biloxi later, with pictures, when I get back to Mt. Pleasant and get my mind around it.
