Pearson senior vice-president of sales and marketing Karl Gustafson reads the children’s book Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney, Thursday, October 6, 2011 at the Chandler location as part of Jumpstart’s Read for the Record, presented in partnership with the Pearson Foundation. The event is a world-record-breaking campaign that brings together children and adults to read the same book on the same day.

By Darryl Webb
The scanners whispered “evacuation and we’re closing off the streets” and something about a fire, but I couldn’t quite make out what is, that’s when I turned it up. There’s nothing like good spot news to get a photojournalist’s blood pumping, and more than likely this was probably going to be my last one at the Tribune with my last day being Saturday. So I began to listen a little more intently, I heard it was in Chandler (our coverage zone) then I heard a tanker truck …

The photo above may be a boring building mug to most of you, but to me it means I still have a job and I’m working the job that I love. Allow me to explain. In early November our paper, The East Valley Tribune received news from our owners (Freedom Communications) that they were closing our doors and that Dec. 30 would be the last paper printed on our presses. It was gloom and doom around here for weeks, then in the middle of that month we heard …

With the Chandler Fashion Center opening at midnight on Thanksgiving, shoppers staked out their spots starting at 4:30pm that afternoon.
I arrived at the mall around 10:30 to witness the start to the holiday shopping season.  With the lines outside you would have thought they were giving away stuff.  The mall was offering a limited number of $50 gift cards after purchases were made in the mall.  The doors ready to open, a DJ was playing loud techno music to get the crowd running.
I watched for nearly 10 minutes the flood …

Today the Greater Phoenix Area received another excessive heat warning by the National Weather Service and it looks like it will go on through the weekend. Expect temps from 108 to 114. Hmmm, sounds like a great time to be out taking photos of people staying cool.

I really need to remember to carry flip-flops in my car, my socks and shoes are still drying out.

So I ran into a situation last Friday night after grocery shopping and I thought I’d share with you.
After leaving the store with a cart full of food, I found myself watching a pretty good lightning show in the northwest part of town. Now we haven’t had a lot of lightning this year so when I see lightning (bolts), not heat lightning, I like to shoot it. Luckily – well maybe not luck, more like always being on the job- I had my camera gear in my car even …