All hail breaks loose
Riley Thompson, 8, of Edmond, Okla., plays on mound of hail stones in the Sam's Club parking lot on Penn Avenue near Memorial Road, Sunday, May 16, 2010 in Oklahoma City. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman
It seems every couple of years we will get a hail storm that makes some some surreal pictures and gives photographers an opportunity to photograph their own hands. Yesterday’s storm did not disappoint in either department.
Check out our gallery from yesterday here.
Nichols Hills resident Tommy Dumbell looks at his two cars which had their windows knocked out by up tennis ball-size hail after a severe thunderstorm moved through Nichols Hills and NW Oklahoma City , Sunday, May 16, 2010. By Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman
Walking through fog created by the hail and warm temperatures, Louise Vandaveer walks past debris on Huntleigh Street in The Village as she checks on her neighbors following a storm in the Oklahoma City metro area on Sunday, May 16, 2010. By John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Click here for more photos of the storm.
-Nate Billings
Oklahoma Tornadoes
Last night members of the photo staff were out capturing images of aftermath caused by the tornadoes that hit central Oklahoma. View the images in the gallery here.
A woman injured on SE 84th street is attended to north of Highway 9 after a tornado touched down Monday, May 10, 2010, in Norman, Okla. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman
Pictures I like-Spring Edition
Staff Photographers at The Oklahoman have been busy with daily assignments since our last blog post. If you haven’t yet, check out the galleries page to see pictures from high school and college baseball games, graduations, tennis matches and a recent ceremony for fallen police officers.
Roff's Chance Tolliver, middle, and Jeremy Grinstead (24) celebrate their win over the Class B state baseball championships between Red Oak and Roff, Saturday, May 8, 2010 at Dolese Park in Oklahoma City. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman
Rik Armstrong celebrates after walking across the platform to receive his diploma, one of nearly 3000 students who participated in three separate commencement ceremonies inside Gallagher-Iba Arena on the Oklahoma State University campus, Saturday, May 8, 2010. Armstrong is from Southlake, TX. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Bethel's Makayla Green, right, and Megan Acklin celebrate following the Class 5A slow-pitch high school softball state championship game between Bethel and Purcell, Wednesday, May 5, 2010, at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman.
-John Clanton
Respect and Resolve
Charlene Green (left) and Mabel Knight cry as they join other family members and friends around LaKesha Levy's chair following the Fifteen Years Respect and Resolve ceremony at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 19, 2010. By John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Fifteen years have passed since the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City. A ceremony held today at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum commemorated the anniversary. Hundreds of people attended the ceremony, which ended with family members placing items on the chairs of their lost family members in the Field of Chairs. Three photographers covered the event for The Oklahoman. Here’s a slideshow of some of our best images, or you can take a look at the gallery by clicking here.
A vase of fresh flowers sits next to the reflecting pool during ceremony to remember and commemorate the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The flowers were later placed at the chair of a victim of the bombing. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
Best of the Year
The Oklahoman Staff Photographer Jim Beckel has placed in NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Contest.
Paul Norwood watches helplessly as his neighbor's home is destroyed by wildfires in eastern Oklahoma County Thursday, April 9, 2009. These homes are in Oakwood East housing addition, near SE 15 and Westminster. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Last year, during an outbreak of wildfires, Beckel was sent to a neighborhood in Midwest City that is less than half a mile from his home. Beckel described a scene of chaos, but what caught his eye amid all the smoke, was a bright yellow truck. Paul Norwood, the subject of the picture, had helped firemen push the truck out of the garage moments before Beckel arrived. From across the street, Beckel began taking pictures. He took fewer than five pictures before Paul looked up at the smoke and Beckel captured an award winning picture. “It was a lucky picture,” said Beckel. Director of Photography Doug Hoke said today after we heard that Beckel had placed in NPPAs worldwide contest, that he doesn’t remember anyone at The Oklahoman ever placing in the contest. To see Jim’s entry, click here, or for NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism website, click here. Congratulations to Jim.
Pictures I Like
In cased you missed them when they ran in the newspaper, or in case they never got published, here’s a couple of pictures from The Oklahoman photo staff in the last couple of days.
Zoe Trenary, 8, and her dad BW Trenary dance during the annual Daddy Daughter Dance sponsored by the Norman Parks and Recreation Department at the Embassy Suites Sat. Feb. 6, 2010. Photo by Jaconna Aguirre, The Oklahoman
University of Tennessee defensive back and 2009 Jim Thorpe Award Winner Eric Berry poses for a photo while trying on cowboy hats at Tener's Western Outfitter, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010, in Oklahoma City. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman
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Brent Link, seated, shakes the hand of a person while he and his guide dog, Gipper, wait with Link's son, Stephen, outside a courtroom inside the Cleveland County Courthouse Monday morning, Feb, 8, 2010. Link testified Monday in the murder trial of William Eugene Davis, 52. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
A concrete pier collapsed into an alley south of the Oklahoma City Downtown Library in Oklahoma City on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
Winter Storm 2010
Cattle with snow and ice covering their backs on SH 4 just south of Piedmont, Okla., Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. Photo by Paul B. Southerland, The Oklahoman
Oklahomans are digging out from the winter storm that hit the state beginning last Thursday. Below are some of the photos Oklahoman staff photographers have taken out in the snow and ice. To see galleries of even more photos from the ice and snow, follow the links below.
A crowd of people make their way up a hill as people sled at Will Rogers Park in Oklahoma City, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
A mail box is covered in ice on Pine road in Logan County, Okla., January 29, 2010. Photo by Steve Gooch, The Oklahoman
Purcell firefighter Jason Benefiel cuts limbs obstructing traffic on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010, in Purcell, Okla., after a winter storm. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman
Icicles on the trunk of a car, Friday, Jan. 29 , 2010. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
City workers clear the sidewalks in downtown Edmond, Okla., Friday , January 29, 2010. Photo by David McDaniel, The Oklahoman
Cars are scarce on I-35 in Edmond, Okla., Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. By Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman
A woman, who only would gave her name as Florence, knocks snow from her shoes as she stands beneath a curtain of icicles after clearing snow from her car at her Del City apartment on Tyanne Blvd., Jan. 30, 2010. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Nancy Mergler, University of Oklahoma Provost, clears her rear windshield to head home at 1:15 pm. President David Boren called off classes for the remainder of Thursday and all of Friday as a winter storm moved into the area on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, in Norman, Okla. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman
Oklahoma City resident Timothy Hickey puts the finishing touches on a polar bear at his home in Oklahoma City, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. By Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman
Chris Roberts is pulled by a power kite on a snowboard at Lake Hefner during a winter storm in Oklahoma City, Friday, January 29, 2010. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman
-Nate Billings
Best of the Year is online.
Paul Norwood watches helplessly as his neighbor's home is destroyed by wildfires in eastern Oklahoma County Thursday, April 9, 2009. These homes are in Oakwood East housing addition, near SE 15 and Westminster. By Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Both of you have probably been wondering where the best of the year site is. I’ve previewed it a couple of times (here and here) and now it’s online! Take a look by clicking this link.
-John Clanton
Record snowfall
Staff Photographers from The Oklahoman headed out into the snowstorms over the weekend to look for pictures. On Christmas eve, Jim Beckel got stuck at the airport, Paul Southerland went to El Reno and was stuck in the snow out there for hours. Here’s a few of the many images that were sent in over the weekend.
A driver receives help after getting stuck on Britton Road in Oklahoma City Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009. By Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
Julie Nelson shields her daughter Caiden Cauwell, 3, from the weather as she does some last-minute shopping in Norman Thurs. Dec. 24, 2009. By Jaconna Aguirre, The Oklahoman
Rosario Riley shiellds her face from blowing snow as she leaves Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City on Dec. 24, 2009, after her flight to Cleveland was cancelled. By Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Kristin Dong, 8, makes tries out her new inline skates on ice in her yard on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009, in Norman, Okla. By Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman
A front-end loader removes snow around an abandonded car on E.K. Gaylord and Robert S. Kerr. Many spent Christmas Day, Dc. 25, 2009, digging out from record snow storm that dumped 14 inches of severe winter storm in the Oklahoma City area. By Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
Suspect in Custody
Officers arrested this suspect after searching door to door, looking in trash carts, parked cars, back yards and behind fences on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Staff Photographer Jim Beckel left the office on Tuesday morning looking for weather art. Less than five minutes later, he heard an interesting call over his police scanner. Here’s what Jim wrote in his cutlines:
“Headquarters, Suspect in Custody.” Police officers converged on a northwest Oklahoma City neighborhood Tuesday morning, Nov. 10, 2009, after responding to a call of a suspicious subject. Officers said the subject then ran from them and attempted to break into an occupied residence. After searching door to door, looking in trash carts, parked cars, back yards and behind fences, an officer spotted the suspect hiding between houses near NW 81 and Harvey Place. The man ran again, sprinting across a park and into the back yards of neighboring homes. Within 5 minutes, the officer in pursuit radioed to headquarters that the suspect was in custody. He was arrested in the 300 block of NW 79, just a few blocks from where he was originally sighted.
A suspect runs through a northwest Oklahoma City neighborhood, trying to evade capture by Oklahoma City Police. Officers converged on a northwest Oklahoma City neighborhood Tuesday morning, Nov. 10, 2009, after responding to a call of a suspicious subject. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Jim ended up with interesting pictures and an exciting morning, but we still don’t have any weather art.
-John Clanton
