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Richard Gwin
Recent stories
- Uncertainty a common feeling, photographer finds in annual trip to Cuba
- Younger generation in Cuba harbors hopes, fears
- May 18, 2009
- Early every morning and late into the evenings, I walked the streets of Old Havana, a place I know well from years of visiting Cuba.I traveled to Cuba this year to cover May Day in Havana, a celebration of labor, and it was an unbelievable time. I was up at 5 a.m. May 1, as people in Havana started to assemble. On other trips, I’ve covered May Day in other, less populated parts of the island.
- Democratic convention brings back memories of ‘76
- August 31, 2008
- Watching the Democrats in Denver this week brought back some old memories of covering the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City as a young photojournalist.
- Behind the Lens: Underwater shots managed with a little ingenuity
- July 20, 2008
- All the staff photographers at the Journal-World are always trying to make the things we shoot on a daily basis look different.
- Behind the Lens: Crime scene tough assignment for any photographer
- June 15, 2008
- Taking photos at crime scenes is one part of the job no one likes, because you deal with a lot of emotions - not only yours, but family members, law enforcement and other media as well.
- Behind the Lens: Various photo gear helpful to storm chasers
- May 4, 2008
- One very interesting part of photography is when the weather changes quickly in the spring and one is called to head out into Mother Nature’s wrath.
- Behind the Lens: Photographer catches cat fever
- March 2, 2008
- Call me crazy, but the idea of photographing a cougar, a puma - a mountain lion - would be one of the most exciting subjects for my lens.
- In Castro’s shadow
- Photographer tells about his love of Cuba and life under its leader
- February 20, 2008
- Until my first visit to Cuba in 1990, all I knew about the tiny island country I learned during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the weeklong event I witnessed in 1962 on a fuzzy, black-and-white TV in western Kansas.But during a trip to Jamaica I saw an advertisement for flights to Cuba, and I was intrigued. Being a journalist, I was able to legally get into the country. The next day I was in Havana.
- Behind the Lens: Investing time, patience pays when shooting wildlife
- January 27, 2008
- I remember sitting in the Pratt High Library in the ‘60s and looking through Sports Afield and Outdoor Life, just to name a few outdoor magazines. Plug that into becoming a photographer, and you have someone who not only loves the outdoors but gets paid to make photos of it.
- Retracing trail resurrects history
- September 29, 2007
- You know about the horses. You know about the wagons. What you may not know is that many settlers crossed the Oregon Trail in the 1800s on their feet. But Karen and Dave Vixie know it all too well. Last week, they joined a wagon train that followed the Kansas portion of the trail, both of them walking stretches that covered 13 or more miles a day. The trail goes through Lawrence.
Recent photos
Donald Eteeyan, left, and his brother, Scott, look over their Camaro following an accident Wednesday morning. They were driving east on K-10 when a car pulled out in front of them.
Douglas County Sheriff's deputies work at the scene of a two-car accident at the intersection of Kasold Drive and the Kansas Highway 10 bypass Wednesday morning. An eastbound car was struck by a car that pulled out onto K-10.
Scott Eteeyan and his brother, Donald, take photos of their car following an accident on the K-10 bypass Wednesday morning. The brothers escaped serious injury.
Nichole Hoffman likes to use fresh ingredients for her homemade ice cream recipes, including vanilla bean.
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