In case you missed it
Zoo officials invited Oklahoma City media on Thursday, April 28, 2011, to get their first look at their baby elephant, born recently at the zoo. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Staff Photographers have been busy in the last few days photographing everything from baby elephants to music festivals. Here’s a couple of images that you may not have seen in the newspaper. We’ve made plenty of photo galleries from our assignments as well. Follow these links to see images from the Norman Music Festival, 89er Day Parade, the 2011 Festival of the Arts, the new baby elephant at the zoo, or the Thunder’s second round loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. You can read more about the Thunder by clicking here.
Tyler Glaze of Bethany, Okla., takes cover from the rain prior to the 11th Annual Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon in Oklahoma City on Sunday, May 1, 2011. The start of the marathon was delayed 30 minutes due to the weather. Tyler Glaze went to the marathon to support friends who ran the race. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Kevin Durant (35) of Oklahoma City walks to the baseline to inbound the ball after a Memphis bucket as Eric Maynor (6), Serge Ibaka (9), James Harden (13) and Nick Collison (4) walk back on defense in the second half during game one of the Western Conference semifinals between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA basketball playoffs at Oklahoma City Arena in Oklahoma City, Sunday, May 1, 2011. Memphis won, 114-101. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman
Memphis' Marc Gasol (33) blocks a shot by Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant (35) during game one of the Western Conference semifinals between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA basketball playoffs at Oklahoma City Arena in Oklahoma City, Sunday, May 1, 2011. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
A damp marathon in Oklahoma City
Valerie Simmons gets a hug from Jackie Roberts (right) as they finish the half marathon during the 11th Annual Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon in Oklahoma City on Sunday, May 1, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
The rain started to fall not long after runners and their families gathered at the Survivor Tree at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum. The Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon was delayed 30 minutes due to the rain and lightning on Sunday, but the races were held despite the cold, wet weather. Three staff photographers from The Oklahoman were positioned around the course to document the 11th annual marathon around the city, including a wedding at the 6 mile mark.
You can see more images from the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon by clicking here.
People run over the Dr. G. E. Finley Bridge during the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon, Sunday, May 1, 2010, in Oklahoma City. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman
A slow shutter speed shows runners passing by the 9:03 gate on the west side of the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum during the 11th Annual Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon in Oklahoma City on Sunday, May 1, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Joel Rogalsky and Amy Wills kiss after getting married during the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon on NW 35th, Sunday, May 1, 2011. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
Here comes the rain, finally
The cross at the lifechurch.tv, 4600 E.2nd St., is reflected in raindrops on a car's rear-view mirror during a thunderstorm, Sunday, April 24, 2011, in Edmond, Okla. Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman
On Sunday I drove around searching for pictures of the city’s first significant rainfall in months. Here are a couple of selections.
— Sarah Phipps
An umbrella sits abandoned, during a thunderstorm, Sunday, April 24, 2011, in Norman, Okla. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoma
Unpublished pictures and catching up
Five-year-old Kendall Hoorman runs down a sidewalk in search of eggs during the LIVE on the Plaza Easter egg hunt in Oklahoma City, Friday, April 8, 2011. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
In the last 10 days or so, Staff Photographers at The Oklahoman have turned in some nice pictures, not all of which have gotten published in the newspaper. Here’s a few pictures that deserve a second look.
We’ve turned in plenty of photo galleries, that you can see by clicking here, including galleries from the start of the NBA playoffs in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma State’s win during the Bedlam baseball series and the Southwest Street Rod Nationals. We’ve also put up a few slideshows recently, including one about sidewalk chalk and one about singers auditioning to sing the National Anthem for the RedHawks.
Paul Cates rides "Tilley" in an exercise arena at State Fair Park, Thursday, April 14, 2011, during the Oklahoma Centennial Horse Show. Cates is from Paul Cates Stables in Round Rock. Texas. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant (35) is greeted by fans as he walks off the court after the 107-103 win over Denver during the first round NBA basketball playoff game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Denver Nuggets on Sunday, April 17, 2011, in Oklahoma City, Okla. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
Watching the Clouds Go By
The other night I had a few minutes of down time before the start of a high school soccer game that I was shooting at Deer Creek. As I waited for the game to start, my mind began to wonder just like a kid that plays the outfield in t-ball, and I began to notice the very interesting cloud formations that were floating by overhead. In order to not let them go to waste, I grabbed my camera and went to work. Here are a few of the clouds formations I captured. You can see a few more photo in the photo gallery.
Cloud formations in the sky on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Edmond, Okla. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
Cloud formations in the sky on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Edmond, Okla. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
Cloud formations in the sky on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Edmond, Okla. This photo was shot under exposed to capture the gold light in the clouds from the sunset. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
Cloud formations in the sky on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Edmond, Okla. This photo was shot under exposed to capture the gold light in the clouds from the sunset. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
Springtime Macro
A dandelion outside a home in The Village on Saturday, April 2, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
My daughter and I collected a dandelion bouquet at the park last week. Well, I was the one holding the bouquet. She likes to pick the flowers and occasionally try to blow out the seeds, but she doesn’t like to hold more than one flower at a time. Over the years, I’ve killed thousands of dandelions in my yard, but standing out in the park the other day, I held the flowers in the sunlight and looked at how beautiful and complex they really are.
We have a 50mm macro lens in our pool closet up in the office. Since that trip to the park, I borrowed the 50mm for a few days to collect some pictures of dandelions. Here are three of my favorites.
The wind pulls at the last remaining seeds on a dandelion at Bumpass Park in The Village on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
A dandelion at Bumpass Park in The Village on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
Construction continues
Devon construction at Sheridan and Hudson in downtown Oklahoma City Thursday Feb. 17, 2011. Photo by Paul B. Southerland, The Oklahoman
Oklahoma City’s skyline is changing. After two years of construction, the new Devon Energy Tower is now taller than the Chase Tower, and construction is still underway. So far, we’ve turned in about 250 pictures going back to a press conference about the proposed building in August 2008. Since then nearly every staff photographer has a picture of some aspect of the construction, whether it’s a skyline picture, weather feature, construction picture and even a crane that tipped over.
Here’s a few pictures over the last couple of years. I’ve made a gallery featuring more of the 250 pictures that you can see here.
A welder straddles a beam while working on the Garden Wing at the Devon construction site, Sheridan and Hudson, in downtown Oklahoma City Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Photo by Paul B. Southerland, The Oklahoman
The Devon Tower is still under construction in the background as pedestrians walk by in front of the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Construction continues as Devon Energy Center, left, rises into the skyline surpassing Chase Tower, right, as the tallest building in downtown Oklahoma City in this photo taken looking across the Oklahoma River near SE 15 and Central Avenue Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Photo by Paul B. Southerland, The Oklahoman
Klay Kimker, vice president of administration at Devon Energy, takes a picture at the construction site of the new Devon Tower in downtown Oklahoma City on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
Pictures I Like-So far this month
A motorist tries to dig a path for their car on the access road to I-235 near Britton Road during a major winter storm that hit central Oklahoma Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. Photo by Doug Hoke, The Oklahoman
So far this month, Staff photographers at The Oklahoman have put over 1,100 images into our archive system. I thought that seemed like a high number and attributed it to the snow storms. When I looked up the same time period over the last few years, however, we turned in about the same amount in the first 13 days of February 2010 and 2009 we turned in nearly 1,400 images.
We’re getting back into a more normal routine after the recent snow storms. No early deadlines or assignments canceled because of ice and snow this week. There are plenty of images to catch up on from the end of last week and some good stories to look for on the Alternate Crop blog site in the next few days. Here’s a last look at some of the blizzard images you may have missed last week, as well as gymnastics and Rumble the Bison. We’ve put up galleries about the PBR events in Oklahoma City over the weekend as well as galleries from Oklahoma City Thunder games that you can watch by clicking here and remember that you can click the images on this post to see them on a dark background.
Abby Hoffman, 12, of Jenks Gymnastics competes on the bars during the Nadia Comaneci International Invitational at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City, Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
The sun sets at a frozen Lake Hefner, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, in Oklahoma City. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman
Guilherme Marchi's ride ends during the PBR (Professional Bull Riders) 2011 Built Ford Tough Series event at the OKC Arena in Oklahoma City on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Oklahoma City's Serge Ibaka (9) blocks the shot of Washington's Kevin Seraphin (13) during the NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and the Oklahoma City Thunder at the Oklahoma City Arena in Oklahoma City, Friday, January 28, 2011. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman
Jennie Linck (right) slips and falls as she and her sister Meg Linck (in pink) help push German exchange student, Alexander Kauschanski, down their street in Heritage Hills during a snow storm in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Firefighters battle a house fire in the 1900 block of E Harrison in Guthrie County, February 3 , 2011. Photo by Steve Gooch, The Oklahoman
Greg Rosino surprised his wife Krystale at work when Thunder Mascot Rumble delivered a Valentine Surprise on Saturday, February 12, 2011, in Norman, Okla. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
The Blizzard Strikes Back
Heavy equipment pushes snow off of Penn near Britton during a snow storm in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Staff Photographers from The Oklahoman spent Wednesday morning photographing the second major snowstorm in the last two weeks. We’ve compiled a gallery of images that you can see by clicking here. If either of you missed the time lapse video we put together of the last major storm you can either scroll down a couple of posts or click here. If you’re interested in vague Star Wars references, then you might also be interested in this post from a few weeks ago.
Payton Ford V, age 8, hits a snow drift as he sleds at Will Rogers park in Oklahoma City , February 9 , 2011. Photo by Steve Gooch, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
Blizzard
Just before the snowfall started, Nate Billings had the idea to do a time-lapse video of the blizzard from multiple locations. He set up a camera on the ninth floor of the OPUBCO tower at Britton and Broadway in Oklahoma City on Monday night. I braced a camera to a ladder in my garage to get images of the snow piling up in the window, and Sarah Phipps set one up in the front window of her home in NW Oklahoma City.
We attached Pocket Wizard receivers to our Canon Mark II cameras and set them to take a picture every 20 seconds. To avoid glare off of the windows that could ruin the effect, you have to mask off the area around the lens. To do this I nailed an old blanket to the top of the window and draped it over my camera. On the sides of the windows, I propped up two large pieces of cardboard. This kept the garage light or the light from the kitchen from refecting off the glass.
We started recording around 11 pm on Monday night and let the cameras take pictures all night long. I turned off my camera at about 12:45 pm on Tuesday.
We ended up with three very different time-lapse videos that we edited together to make this video.
As always, you can see images from the blizzard and all of our photo galleries by clicking here.
-John Clanton
