Enjoying newsprint while it’s still around.

Thursday morning I rushed down to the Law Enforcement Center to shoot a “perp walk” - one of my favorite things to shoot, for some reason. I love racing against the clock to get there in time, or finally getting the shot after waiting around for hours. And then there’s the off chance the perp will react to one of the random questions you throw out. Although my questions - like today, for example - always seem to be kinda unconfident and forced: “Umm…what do you have to say about the charges and stuff that…you’re being charged with?” He didn’t give an answer.

Anyway, the whole point of this post was just to show the photo on the paper the next day and point out that I’m skulking in the background (left). That never happens. Usually it’s just an arm or my hand. One time a photog friend of mine was shown on the front page of the paper being choked “Darth Vader style” by a cop. Also, I used to have a news director that would reward us with cash if our microphone flag was featured prominently in the newspaper, so we’d all check the paper on the day following a major news story and see if we got lucky.