Slow Saturday: check out my photo gallery

I somehow convinced my editor to allow me to spend last Tuesday hiking up the Mount Wilson Toll Road with the idea that I would deliver some top notch photos to accompany my story on the road being fixed.

It was a great hike, but the photos did not make the paper. They did, however, make it into an online photo gallery, viewable here. The gallery lists the photographer as Walt Mancini, but only about half are his. The other ones have my name on them once you click on them.

So far, in my time at the Tribune and the Star News I have been shut out in my attempts to land a photo on the front page of the paper. Departing metro editor Eddie Barrera told me about three months ago, when I was still at the Tribune, that I was the only Trib reporter not to ever nail a front page cover, and that any self-respecting reporter should expect to take the winning photo at some point.

That was shortly before he sent me out with a camera to try and get a front-page photo on a story about a wave of shattered windshields. That's Barrera's style of motivation. It didn't work though, as I did not get the photo printed.

So for now, this photo gallery is all I have. Try to enjoy it, even though it is not worthy of a front cover.

In case anyone is wondering, I am in fact at work today, which is why I have spent this much time blogging about my ineptitude with a camera.