Meat cutters Juan Ortiz,left, and Eric Seals compete in the Texas Roadhouse Meat Cutters Challenge, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 in Phoenix. A total of six cutters in the Valley competed looking to advance to the 2012 national competition in Florida. The winner of the national competition receives a grand prize of $20,000 and is crowned Meat Cutter of the Year. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]

Kids participate in an attempt to break the Guinness World Records title for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period, Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at the Red Mountain Multigeneration Center in Mesa. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]

As a photographer there are many compute programs that can be used to showcase projects.  Soundslides is program which allows for adding voice/music to still images.  Before importing the images and sound into the program they must first be edited.  It is a great format for bringing both sound and images together.  When I first started using the program about four years ago I quickly wanted to learn more and it was then I started getting interested in shooting video.
Mesa neon signs slideshow, with “Thunderstorms …

Early November can’t come soon enough for those wanting to see Tempe Town Lake return.  While the water is gone, it is giving City of Tempe  workers time to clean out the junk that has accumulated in the water over the years.

I got a call from a friend on Saturday thinking a new Batman movie was being filmed in Apache Junction. It was not a major motion picture set but a set being used to film an Internet video. On Saturday numerous famous replica vehicles were driving along Baseline Road in Apache Junction from Ironwood to Idaho for a filming of a promotional video by willitmakeit.com
Baseline Road was shut down for a few hours while filming took place. The filming was promoting the inaugural Cannonball Phoenix Spree which will take …

Monday morning I covered the assembly of J. Seward Johnson’s “God Bless America” 25-foot-tall sculpture replica of the iconic Grant Wood painting American Gothic in downtown Mesa.

I wouldn’t call myself a gear head, but I definitely pay attention when a game changer hits the market. For the past few years I’ve had a Google Alert for the Canon 7D (the model that was speculated to replace the popular full-frame 5D). The 5D Mark II came and went yet there was no sign of the much rumored 7D. Until this weekend. My email inbox was full of Google Alerts as Canon announces the 7D. Eighteen megapixels, 8 frames per second still shooting rate, and 1080p HD video …