Fellow staff photographer Steven Georges and I photographed rapper Nate Dogg's funeral today, well, we didn't actually photograph his funeral, we took pictures of people entering and exiting the event. The service was closed to ALL MEDIA. That means everybody, unless you were hired by Snoop Dogg, then it was ok to take pictures and video and stream it live on the web.
The picture above is Warren G as he is comforted after the funeral service for Nathaniel (Nate Dogg) Hale at the Queen Mary Dome in Long Beach, Calif. on March 26, 2011. Nate Dogg, who rose to prominence in the early 1990 s singing on multi-million selling albums with childhood friends Snoop Dogg, Warren G and Daz, suffered strokes in 2007 and 2009 and had been ailing in recent months. He was 41. See more pictures>>
PHOTOS: Snoop Dogg, Warren G, Dr. Dre attend Nate Dogg's Funeral
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This blog is a journal of Southern California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It's updated frequently with pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze.
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003 and Best News Photo from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2010. In 2011, the photo staffs of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze merged. Now he covers all of Southern Los Angeles County. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003 and Best News Photo from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2010. In 2011, the photo staffs of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze merged. Now he covers all of Southern Los Angeles County. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
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