So several times this week people asked me, “Why are you here, why aren’t you taking time off since you’re basically done?” Well, the answer is, I love my job. I worked too hard to get it just to walk away from it. I guess I need to be pushed out the door, and that’s what’s happening Monday. You see I just didn’t get out of college and get my dream job. I took the long, windy road to get it, and so it means a lot more …

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 …

Last week my blog was on how I drove 500 miles in search of fall colors and how I failed. If’s there’s one thing to know about me is that I don’t like to fail. So I took a day off work and headed up north again in search of some color. This time my buddies and I headed towards Flagstaff, Harts Prairie and Snow Bowl, and I’m proud to say we captured some really nice images, the sun did try to play tricks on us but we worked with …

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 …