Over the next week or 2, BagNews will be featuring selections from my ongoing “War at Home” series in the Originals section of the site.
For those of you who do not know the site, take a look, and not just to see my photos. Michael Shaw, who runs the [...]
In December of 2008 I photographed the deployment ceremony of Company D of theĀ 1/252nd Combined Arms Battalion of the North Carolina National Guard, part of the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, as they got ready to head out to Iraq.
This past weekend they returned home to Sanford, NC. [...]
A couple of months ago, M. Scott Brauer, an old friend of mine from NY who now lives and works in China, asked me if I would do an interview on my ongoing War at Home project for his and Matt Lutton’s blog dvafoto. I agreed and the interview has been [...]
My good buddy George just alerted me to the fact that Joerg over at Conscientious has posted a link to my War at Home project (under “Projects” on the site)
Joshua C. Blaney is returned home
I entered the project in the portfolio competition he had a [...]
A Marine sleeps in the rec room of the Wounded Warrior Battalion at Camp LeJeune, NC
My ongoing series on the effects of the wars in the Middle East, The War at Home, on my website under Projects, has been entered in the Viewbook PhotoStory competition. If you feel it [...]
Waiting for the services to begin for NC National Guardsman Sgt. Robert L. Bittiker to start, Jacksonville, NC.
It has been interesting shooting photos on the phone, like everyone else theses days, but occasionally I get something I never thought I had, a surprise of sorts. Processed to [...]
A couple of my photos were featured a few days ago on the IndieNC blog. It seems like a great resource for local happenings and a big thanks to Michelle Smith for the opportunity.
Several hundred members of the 30th Brigade Heavy Combat Team of the North Carolina National Guard left for Iraq last night. About 4000 members will be heading over in the next week or so for a 12 month tour. Been following these men and women for a while now as they prepared to go, [...]