I was covering the send off rally of the Arizona Cardinals as they were leaving to New Orleans to play the Saints. Tons of fans and supporters showed up for rally at the airport. I was watching the cheerleaders dance during the celebration and noticed the Bidwill family waiting behind them for the team to show up.

One of the youngsters from the family had his eye on them, and I was talking with fellow photographers looking on at the boy. I was looking at the facial expression …

One element that can make a photo look interesting is the use of repetition. I found this row of stalls while shooting a horse show in Gilbert that created a nice pattern, especially when the pattern is broken up by a person walking through the frame.

Lately I’ve taken a lot of head shots during interviews and thought I’d share a trick I used when shooting indoors with poor available light. I used an external flash mounted on the camera for both of these photos:

When I decide use a flash on assignment with poor available light, one of my goals is to make the light from the flash blend in with the available light in the room. In the first shot, the example of what I normally don’t do, I had the flash on the camera …