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LEFT eye STORIES

LEFTeyeSTORIES are the good, the bad, and sometimes funny things that happen during a photo assignment that aren’t part of the published story about the subject or event. They are the backstories of the photos that are about the published story.

Can You Keep A Secret?
Mobsters, Terrorists and Shell Games…Oh My
A Silent Bond
Me And The KKK: close encounters of the strange kind
Chained Smoker
Pat Paulsen asks Sen. Bob Dole to talk
When “Funny” Throws Its Hat Into The Political Ring
Death Sentence Communted: An Epiphany For Me
Frank Flores with parts of his father's crashed plane in his Willard, Missouri garage.
Hey, I’m Alive!…part two
An unhappy Ross Perot
MISFIRE!
Andy Williams-A Class Act
George W. Bush fishing in Missouri before the 2000 election
Fishing with “W”
Humans and animals pick through pick through garbage at an open burn waste dump in the rural Ozarks-1976.
“Wasteland” in the Ozarks
A Bikers’s Funeral
Frozen Forms
Manhunt…but without the hollywood ending
A little girl looks for her uncle in a sea of desert camouflage.
One Face in a Sea of Camouflage
Al Gore gives a stump speech from a concrete block
Al Gore Stumps from a Block
Hot days and Dog days in the Ozarks
Two Clenched Fists: Two Slices from the 70s
Summer job with a travelling side show (circa 1977)
Facial Expressions and a Carnival Sideshow
No Poker Face Here; The mouth says it all. He's stumped.
Stumped; No Poker Face Here
Opening day at the dam, Bennett Spring State Park, Missouri
Trout Day-Same Song; New Tune

Can You Keep a Secret?

Family and friends throw a 60th birthday party for Glen Campbell.

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Mobsters, Terrorists and Shell Games…Oh My!

The Ozarks isn’t known for producing high profile mobsters and terrorists but by way of the Federal Medical Center for Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, we have hosted a number including Robert Stroud (Bird Man of Alcatraz). THE TERRORIST More recently,…

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A Silent Bond

Can you imagine not speaking to your spouse…the one you live with…for a week? Well, OK…how about a month? Or decades…OR EVER? Through their courtship and through four decades of marriage that produced three children, Teddy and Nora Welch never…

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Me and the KKK: close encounters of the strange kind

AWKWARD…is really the only way to describe my interaction with the Klan. It was the sort of awkwardness I remember having when, as a kid, I paid to see a lady with a beard at a summer carnival. I stared…

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Chained Smoker

The subjects of my photographs are often taken aback at the fifteen seconds of fame they often come into when the photos and story about them are distributed nationally and in some cases worldwide. Such was the case with “Rick”…

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When “Funny” Throws Its Hat Into The Political Ring

I was rarely the “pool” photographer during political campaign seasons. Those coveted spots are usually assigned to the staff photographers of the major news outlets. They travel with the candidate in the motorcade and are generally granted closer access resulting in…

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Death Sentence Commuted: An Epiphany For Me

The Pope had requested clemency for other death row inmates in Missouri and in other states, but without success. So, this is suddenly a national news story and I’m on the road to meet reporters from the Times and the…

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Hey, I’m Alive!…part two

The photo assignment was to drive to a little town in Missouri where a fellow had some pieces of a plane his late father had crashed in 1963. The man was planning to gather more of the plane, rebuild it…

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MISFIRE!

Unlike fishermen, photographers usually don’t like to talk about “the one that got away”.  But, I have decided to swallow my pride and add my story of the one that got away to the LEFTeyeSTORIES files. In the summer of…

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Andy Williams-A Class Act

Photo shoots with Andy Williams-always a class act.

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Fishing with “W”

Three weeks before the 2000 election when George W. Bush eked out a very contested victory over Al Gore, the governor made a stop in the Ozarks in support of Roy Blunt who was running for the 7th district house…

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“Wasteland” in the Ozarks

The 2010 Oscar nominated documentary film, “Wasteland” profiles a few of the estimated 250,000 people in Brazil who make their living reusing and recycling the trash the rest of the population generates. The Ozarks has its own 1976 version of…

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A Biker’s Funeral

A look at a biker’s funeral from 1978

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Frozen Forms

Using a handheld flash and a helper, nighttime skaters are frozen in time capturing ballet like movements.

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MANHUNT…but without the Hollywood ending

A 1977 Ozarks manhunt ends without the Hollywood ending as emotions take a toll on lawmen.

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One Face in a Sea of Camouflage

Little girl looks for a familiar face in a sea of returning soldiers from the first gulf war.

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Al Gore Stumps from a Block

What do you do when your candidate needs to give a “stump speech” and there’s not the usual platform nor even a plain old “stump” to be had on a shopping center parking lot? Grab a couple of concrete blocks!

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Hot days and Dog days in the Ozarks

Hot weather photos from 1976

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Two Clenched Fists; Two Slices from the ’70s

A couple of images of life in the ’70s

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Facial Expressions and a Carnival Sideshow

Kids are always a sure bet when you are looking for great facial expressions and facial expressions “sell” the photo. The year was 1977 so the rules of engagement when photographing children (even if they are in a public area)…

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Stumped; No Poker Face Here

Assignment: Get front page “art” from a checkers tournament at the senior citizens center. Wow….OK, that’s a pretty typical photo assignment when you are small town newspaper photojournalist in middle America. That’s where a lot of us start and where…

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Trout Day-Same Song; New Tune

March 1st is the official opening of trout season in Missouri. Every year, the drill is the same. Thousands of fishermen gather at one of Missouri’s four cold water trout parks to stand in or by the river in often…

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