Found a fire feature on the way to an early shoot. Brian Heeke looks on as he burns a brush pile collected out of the pond on his family farm. The farm has been in the family for over 100 years. 

Dubois County closed out the girls basketball season with some sectional wins and regional losses. Emotions are running high as teams celebrate wins and mourn losses. Here are a few frames from the action and some featuring.

Thanks for looking. 

I've done a lot of feature hunting in the past few weeks as well as sports and story work. Each of these photos reminds me of a place or time that I've been able to be a part of since being here and far from the ideal moment I'm trying to capture I think I've been able to make some progress in getting closer to it. 

First off this is a woman I met walking her dog. When the dog would start to yap too much she would poke him stiffly with her cane. 

Next up is an outtake from a story. On this day they went crow hunting and from what their bus driver said, crow tastes like chicken.

This family I found while feature hunting in Dubois. The parents and kids grew up in this area. Just relaxing on a warm day in January. 

This man and his granddaughter are building a snowman on the grave of his father who passed away last year. His father used to take him sledding on the hill on the other side of the cemetery in Ireland. He said that he doesn't like to think that the gravesite itself is what he came to visit with his granddaughter. He remembers the memories most of all of his father dragging him up the same hills he would his granddaughter later that day. To him it's more important to remember those memories than to visit a gravesite. I bet his granddaughter will remember this snowman just the same. 

This next image I really liked just because of what I wanted it to say but I don't think it quite gets there. This is another outtake from a story about a hunting preserve. Donnie was trying to trap these birds so that he could release them in a field for hunters. This chucker hid from him by perching on his back. 

In Indiana there are sports... and then there's basketball. I can only compare basketball in Indiana to football in Texas. But even then I haven't seen the intensity of players, coaches and fans during a high school basketball game here like I have anywhere else. And now playoff season is here. 

This first image is of a Jasper coach celebrating with his players after winning by one point in the last 2.3 seconds of the game. 

And the students always get into it...

But even when not confined to a high school game you will find them playing outside in 40 degree weather with their shirts off.

As always I'm trying to find new ways of making pictures. I think though far from what I'm trying to get at that this is somewhere in the right direction for the feel of what a train has always looked like to me. Something about the unstoppable force that passes through a town so quickly. First it announces it's arrival with a few long blasts from its horn, you can always feel the vibrations move up through your feet to rattle your bones. I grew up in a small town that was originally a train stop. The train continues to run there but probably not for much longer. Even sitting in the movie theatre we could hear the horns blow over the film's orchestral soundtrack. The theatre always used to give out free tickets when that happened. And since there was only one road through town until they built the bridge out to the Dairy Queen you could be stopped for an hour or so if two trains passed each other at just the right spot. 

Thanks for looking. More to come from Indiana.