Words and Light

As you can derive from my “About this blog” page, there are lots of different types of posts within this blog. The categories in the righthand column can’t narrow the posts down for you the reader as specifically as I wish they could. Hence, this page.

Six months in York, Pa.

1. Day 2 at The York Dispatch: Arson [photos]
2. High school basketball: Central York defeats Red Lion 66-43 [photos]
3. Hello, Jack Frost [photos]
4. Holding the universe together [photos]
5. Pig: 1, Chris: 0. [photo]
6. Morning snow [photos]
7. I have puppies! [photo]
8. The face of disappointment: A young Steelers fan [photo]
9. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: A day on, not a day off [photos]
10. Dirt Trackin’ Show: Not what you think [photo]
11. A winter’s night [photo]
12. It’s tax season again! [photos]
13. Shooting kitties and puppies [photos]
14. Rasslin’: Spring Grove defeats Red Lion 46-12 [photos]
15. Diptych: Night and day [photos]
16. Diptych: Fall and winter [photos]
17. Following the Susquehannah [photos]
18. Steeler country [photo]
19. Tractor-trailer vs. train [photo]
20. Making way for a new nature trail [photos]
21. High school basketball: Dallastown defeats Red Lion 43-36 [photos]
22. #snOMG [photo]
23. Video: The Bake Shoppe [photos, video]
24. Snowshoeing [photos]
25. Diptych: Susquehanna ice [photos]
26. Groundhog Day (soon) [photos]
27. Playing against the Harlem Wizards: A big win for all [photos]
28. Video: Singing their way to Carnegie Hall [photo, video]
29. I love being a newspaper photographer because… [photos]
30. Covering the home team [photos]
31. High school basketball: Dallastown loses 57-49 to York High [photos]
32. Rescue(d) horses [photo]
33. Packers nation [photos]
34. Rasslin’: Spring Grove loses quarterfinals to Cumberland Valley [photos]
35. Public service announcement [photo]
36. Valentine’s Day flower prep [photos]
37. High school basketball: York Suburban defeats Susquehannock 65-41 [photos]
    
38. High school swimming: Dover defeats York Suburban [photos]
39. Outtake: Diving [photo]
40. The Clines’ 61st Valentine’s Day together [photos]
41. A Valentine’s Day wedding [photos]
42. Video: Bringing Wii into gym class [photo, video]
43. Scenes from Philly: The food [photos]
44. Jumping for THON [photo]
45. Scenes from Philly: The colors [photos]
46. Vignettes (I) [photos]
47. Ice, LEGOs and backup lenses [photos]
48. Scenes from Philly: The water [photos]
49. Honoring Dallastown’s fallen [photos]
50. College basketball: York College in the Capital Athletic Conference tournament [photos]
51. Quiet pride [photos]
52. Scenes from Philly: The street views [photos]
53. Hard-wired LEGOs [photos]
54. Remembering Dallastown’s fallen [photos]
55. Quidditch for Muggles [photos]
56. Vignettes (II) [photos]
57. ‘Round the old oak tree [photos]
58. Westboro Baptist Church: 1, Grieving father: 0 [photos]
59. Silence, after 127 years and 100 steps above ground [photos]
60. High school basketball: Despair and cheer at District 3 championships [photos]
61. High school basketball: Victory dance at District 3-AAAA title game [photos]
62. Public service announcement [photos]
63. “For dust you are” [photos]
64. A fishy fascination: Releasing live trout [photos]
65. Rasslin’: PIAA Class AAA State Championship preliminaries [photos]
66. All about the watering holes [photos]
67. Pickled beet eggs [photos]
68. Preparing for the PSSA [photos]
69. Ride on the trout train [photos]
70. Free ice [photos]
71. High school tennis: Spring Grove defeats Northeastern 7-0 [photos]
72. Ballet: The Velveteen Rabbit [photos]
73. Throwing season [photo]
74. Growing season [photos]
75. Vignettes (III) [photos]
76. Panqueques [photos]
77. PB-no-J [photo]
78. Slanted [photos]
79. Three Mile Island, 32 years later [photos]
80. Class clowns [photos]
81. Meeting Michael S. Williamson on “Recession Road” [photo, audio]
82. Went to the beach [photo]
83. Finally, cherry blossoms [photos]
84. At the beach: The food [photos]
85. Scenes from Philly: The Flash Bus Tour [photos]
86. Scenes from Philly: Chinatown [photos]
87. Diptych: Philadelphia streets [photos]
88. Vignettes (IV) [photos]
89. Spring high school sports: Lacrosse, soccer and volleyball [photos]
90. At the beach: In the winter [photos]
91. Vignettes (V) [photos]
92. State of the City: Outtakes [photos]
93. The newsroom’s backyard wildlife [photos]
94. At the beach: Living [photos]
95. High school track and field: York Suburban defeats Northeastern [photos]
96. Hunting eggs [photos]
97. Amateur golf: The YCAGA Better Ball tournament [photos]
98. Professional baseball: First day of spring training [photos]
99. At the beach: The final night [photos]
    
100. Learning the standardized field sobriety test [photos, video]
     
101. Professional baseball: Exhibition game against the Heroes of the Diamond [photos]
102. Easter-giving [photos]
103. York: Old and beautiful [photos]
104. The six-digit tattoo [photo]
105. Aftermath of a fire: Water damage [photos]
106. Aftermath of a fire: What remains [photos]
107. Professional baseball: Revs defeat Riversharks 8-2 [photos, video]
108. High school soccer: West York defeats Susquehannock 1-0 [photos]
109. The baptism of Takoda Allen Schultz [photos]
110. Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day [photos]
111. Pit bull country [photos]
112. Merging the arts [photos]
113. Corn planting [photos]
114. Diptych: The tools we use (I) [photos]
115. Diptych: The tools we use (II) [photos]
116. The last day [photo]
117. Diptych: The tools we use (III) [photos]
118. Diptych: The tools we use (IV) [photos]
119. World War II veterans visit D.C. via Honor Bus [photo]
120. More coming soon!

Summer in Hotlanta

1. Interning at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution [photos]
2. Shooting sharks and talking shop [photo]
3. I found a trampoline in the photo studio [photos]
4. Night at Bonnaroo [photo]
5. Studio time [photo]
6. Watch out — I’m in the majors now! [photos]
7. Photographing Foxy [photo]
8. Beach party, urban style [photo]
9. Mexico 2, France 0 [photo]
10. Bras! Or, the assignment every other photographer wanted [photo]
11. Firefighter training: A very hot photo assignment [photos]
12. What’s better than a press conference? Skateboarding. [photos]
13. Comic booking [photo]
14. Solidarity for Troy Davis [photo]
15. Drag show in East Point [photo]
16. Biology stretches [photo]
17. “We need you to turn around. Two window washers are stranded on the Bank of America building.” [photos]
18. Mystified by makeup [photo]
19. The ultimate summer school: Junior police academy [photo]
20. Introducing: Georgia State’s inaugural football team [photos]
21. Down and dirty [photo]
22. The 41st annual Peachtree Road Race [photos]
23. This is why I can’t have nice — oh, shh [photo]
24. Photographing the 2010 Summer Redneck Games [photos]
25. Fastlife Fridays at the speedway [photo]
26. Root job [photo]
27. All dressed in white — for free [photos]
28. Food, glorious food! [photos]
29. Walking to a DREAM [photo]
30. Lock-jaw at the Which Wich [photo]
31. Appalachian fog [photos]
32. Victory over Prop 8 [photo]
33. Meat and cheese [photos]
34. Becoming Mister Mistoffelees [photos]
35. Usher + Justin Bieber + Bill Clinton [photos]
36. Prop 8 rallies: Opposing views, opposite sides of the street [photos]
37. Dance like no one is watching [photo]
38. Atlanta legal [photos]
39. Puppies! [photo]
40. New kid on the block [photos]
41. Honoring the Second Amendment [photos]
42. Elvis has not left the building [photos]
43. Forsyth prison blues [photo]
44. Baby Liam [photos]
45. Unemployed [photos]
46. Done at the AJC [photo]
47. Lowcountry cookin’ [photos]
48. Therapy for Mason [photos]

The 2010 Poynter College Fellowship

1. Day 1 as a 2010 Poynter College Fellow [photos]
2. Running around St. Petersburg [photos]
3. Gleeks and gearheads [photos]
4. Dance-off at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies… chicken-style [photos]
5. Katharine Weymouth: “It’s JOURNALISM.”
6. Scheming. [photo]
7. Keeping it classy [photo]
8. A long night out on St. Petersburg [photos]
9. Poynter’s backyard wildlife [photo]
10. The big 2010 Poynter College Fellows scheme [video]
11. Our last days as Poynter College Fellows [photos]
12. Thank you, #pcf10 [photos]

Another 30-Day Challenge

1. I: Omelette, or my revenge on David Rees [photos]
2. II: An ode to my Chuck Taylors [photos]
3. III: The poky little puppy [photos]
4. IV and V: How much is the puppy in the window? [photos]
5. VI: Development on the outskirts of Columbia [photos]
6. VII: Gong [photos]
7. VIII: After work on a Friday night [photos]
8. IX: Pineapple dump [photos]
9. X: Puppies! [photos]
10. XI: (raincheck)
11. XII: Filling out the 2010 Census [photos]
12. XIII and XIV: St. Patrick’s Day and some messed-up medium format [photos]
13. XI and XVII: Laundry film [photos]
14. XV and XIX: Proper journalist shoes? Nah. [photos]
15. XVI and XVIII: Three days’ difference [photos]
16. XX: Old dirt [photos]
17. XXI – XXVII: Do you know the way to Santa Fe? [photos]
18. XVIII – XXX: Or something like that [photos]
19. XXI: Passing up the Yellow Brick Road [photos]
20. XXII: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain [photos]
21. XXII: Crossing the Rio Grande — almost [photos]
22. XXII: Mexican Coke’d [photos]
23. XXII: Ye’ll take the high road, and I’ll take the low road [photos]
24. XXIII: Life and death in Bandelier National Monument [photos]
25. XXIII: How Santa Fe is “the City Different” [photos]
26. XXIV: Visiting El Santuario de Chimayó [photos]
27. XXIV: Chimayó color [photos]
28. XXIV: Tent Rocks [photos]
29. XXIV: New Mexican sunset [photos]
30. XXV-VI: Scenes from Santa Fe [photos]
31. More coming soon!

Countdown to College Graduation

1. SENIOR YEAR EXCITEMENT: Staff photography and economics reporting
2. Lesson from Week 1: Enterprise is good [photos]
3. Tribute to a good friend: Bon voyage, Darren! [photos]
4. Lesson from Week 2: Young children are easily distracted [photos]
5. Long lenses and crude fans: The ups and downs of being a female football photographer [photos]
6. The Houston Chronicle’s chron.com: A visual mess
7. Belated lesson from Weeks 3 and 4: Sports, sports, sports! [photos]
8. Devouring some Roots ‘N Blues ‘N BBQ [pics]
9. Monday night lights: Shooting junior varsity football for the hell of it [photos]
10. I’m finally (kinda) building a portfolio Web site
11. Belated lesson from Week 5: It’s all about the people [photos]
12. Missouri vs. Nebraska: It’s college football game day!
13. Neither rain nor wind nor cold: Shooting my best football game yet [photos]
14. Study break: Dancing the Thriller [photos]
15. Lessons from Bill Eppridge
16. Lessons from the courtroom: A photography faux pas
17. My new resume, because it’s that time of year again
18. City lights [photos]
19. Flashback to the 90s: A Third Eye Blind concert [photos]
20. How everything came together: Missouri defeats Kansas State 38-12 [photos]
21. Why I’m thankful: More lessons from the courtroom
22. The best day: A summer internship and a college bowl game
23. What this journalism senior is doing during winter break
24. From a former unpaid intern: Are unpaid internships a necessary evil?
25. The Texas Bowl: The last college football game I’ll ever shoot [photos]
26. Shaving as a sequence [photos]
27. “C” is for “cookie” [photos]
28. Three years ago in Lawrence, Kan. [photos]
29. Thirsty Thursday [photos]
30. Sunset along the Missouri River [photos]
31. Mad as hell: Journalists and photographers must stop selling themselves short
32. The weather gods don’t hate me [photos]
33. Five points-of-view: Backyard chickens [photos]
34. Carolyn: Royalty of the True/False March March [photos]
35. A radical idea for the MU School of Journalism: Start more journalism early
36. Announcing… christhedunn.com!
37. File corruption: Just another downside of digital photography [photos]
38. A day at the Texas Renaissance Festival [photos]
39. The statehouse newspaper reporter is an endangered species [multimedia]
40. I’m done. [photo]

The 30-Day Challenge

1. DAY 1: Why I’m furious [photos]
2. DAY 2: Wet pavement [photos]
3. DAY 3: This former roommate was on Jeopardy! [photos]
4. DAY 4: Singing balloons [photos]
5. DAY 5: Super Bowl XLIV, or how I can’t take Bobby Flay [photos]
6. DAY 6: A tale of two Joels [photos]
7. DAY 7: When photo distortion is (kinda) okay [photos]
8. DAY 8: You can always go downtown [photos]
9. DAY 9: Thaw [photos]
10. DAY 10: Photographing the Missouri Grand Prix [photos]
11. A small part of me died — that is, my hard drive
12. DAY 13: Camera arsenal [photos]
13. DAY 14: Chocolate-dipped love – err, strawberries [photos]
14. DAY 15: Raising chickens in a backyard near you [photos]
15. DAY 16: A portrait of this photographer as a young woman [photos]
16. DAY 17: A hard day’s night [photos]
17. DAY 18: Chicken run, or why the chickens (almost) crossed the road [photos]
18. DAY 19: Dead fish on bread [photo]
19. DAY 20: Yesterday [photos]
20. DAY 22: Jeff [photos]
21. DAY 23: In response to David Rees’ query [photos]
22. DAY 24: March Marching for True/False Film Fest 2010 [photos]
23. DAY 25: The Tigers fall to the Wildcats, and What Not to Wear [photos]
24. DAY 26: Hung fish [photo]
25. DAYS 11 and 12 (redux): The fourth annual Missouri Grand Prix [photos]
26. DAY 27: More food — nachos! [photo]
27. DAY 28: An atypical Tuesday [photos]
28. DAY 29: Why I’m terrified [photos]
29. DAY 30: Karaoke night, and the end [photos]

90ish Days of Summer

1. 90ish days of summer in T-minus 4ish days
2. Downtown Silver Spring, Md.: my first shot at street photography [pics]
3. Washington, D.C.: a plethora of free sights to see [pics]
4. Capitol Building: FAIL. Library of Congress: FAIL.
5. Adventures with D.C.’s flora and fauna [pics]
6. THE INTERNSHIP: One day more [pics]
7. Newseum: FAIL. [pics]
8. washingtonpost.com: A newsroom I’m not yet used to
9. I am done with Week 1 at washingtonpost.com
10. Hello, starshine! It’s been a while
11. Newseum: Not quite a fail
12. ROAD TRIP: To Tennessee! [pics]
13. BONNAROO 2009: Four days of music, sun, rain and epic [pics]
14. The journalist’s instinct when tragedy strikes
15. Take me home, country roads! [pics]
16. Great Falls Park: Not any national park [pics]
17. The joys of having a photo byline again
18. BORN IN THE U.S.A. [pics]
19. My first photo assignment for The Washington Post! [pics]
20. THIS BLOG IS NOT DEAD.
21. I. Love. Rodeos. [pics]
22. Summer in the city: New York, here we come!
23. washingtonpost.com, or How I Learned to Keep Editing and Love the Internship
24. Coffee with U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill [backlog - pics]
25. Strange encounters of a third time: Meeting Mary Beth Tinker [backlog - pics]
26. Why this country needs more places like Eastern Market [backlog - pics]
27. Sunset at Rehoboth Bay [backlog - pics]
28. Cape Henlopen almost destroyed my camera [backlog - pics]
29. Summer in the city: Blogging New York City photos [backlog - pics]
30. Summer in the city: Ground Zero and the financial district [backlog - pics]
31. Summer in the city: Beauty and despair on Wall Street [backlog - pics]
32. Summer in the city: Edwardo Alvarado and his dancing dolls [backlog - pics]
33. Summer in the city: Columbia University and the Brooklyn Bridge [backlog - pics]
34. Summer in the city: Nobody’s EVER taken this photo before! [backlog - pics]
35. Summer in the city: An evening in DUMBO [backlog - pics]
36. Summer in the city: City lights (New York edition) [backlog - pics]
37. More coming soon!

Posts for Advanced Techniques in Photojournalism

1. My first Advanced Techniques assignment!
2. I am not destined to do studio photography
3. Fake paint, real brushes and underexposure
4. The joys of working with strobes
5. White balance is a little trickster
6. The sad quasi-irony of being a reporter and photographer
7. This might be what I’m doing this summer
8. Photo’ing mixed martial arts is not a piece of cake
9. Whoa! A flash assignment I actually enjoyed!
10. A fun trick in my photojournalist’s tool kit
11. Yes, Missouri, there is a castle
12. Blood, sweat and tears: producing an MMA audio slideshow

The Great American West (pt. 2)

1. DAY 1: The journey begins
2. DAY 2: A city in the New Mexican sky
3. DAY 3: Arizona on my mind
4. DAY 3: The Grand Canyon is pretty damn grand
5. DAY 4: Utah, you so crazy
6. DAY 4: Utah continues to bewilder us
7. DAY 4: An evening in Arches National Park
8. DAY 5: A morning in Arches National Park
9. DAY 5: Ever heard of Black Canyon of the Gunnison? Me either
10. DAY 6: Snow makes everything prettier, including Colorado
11. DAY 6: It’s the Continental Divide, y’all!
12. DAY 6: The Great Sand Dunes — the biggest playground in North America

The Great American West (pt. 1)

1. WESTWARD HO!
2. I stood on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
3. The West makes me do crazy things
4. My feet almost died, but this trip was completely worth it
5. Epilogue: Back in the Midwest and missing the West