Oh Crop!
Things don’t always show up in the paper like you thought they would. A story I shot last month which was published recently fit a photo into a different size and shape on the front page. Seeing a very horizontal photo cropped into a vertical never really makes a photographer feel very warm and fuzzy. [...]
Former NFL Player Ben Utecht
Former NFL player Ben Utecht won a Super Bowl ring with the Indianapolis Colts and retired from professional football in 2009 after suffering four known concussions in the NFL plus two in college. Utecht is lead male vocalist performing in the Jim Brickman 2011 national Christmas tour. I caught up with Ben prior to a [...]
Hanson Talks 90′s
Isaac, Zac and Taylor Hanson are best known for their 1997 hit song ‘MMMBop,’ which earned them three Grammy nominations. Today, older and touring while promoting the band’s fifth album, Hanson photographed during the Falls Church, VA stop of their The Musical Ride Tour for a story in USA TODAY.
Shafer Vineyard Night Harvest
Harvesting ripe cabernet sauvignon grapes at the Shafer Vineyards in Napa, CA in early morning hours. The scene at this vineyard is part of a worldwide practice that’s increasingly the way all wine grapes are harvested — in the dead of night. Check out the story in USA TODAY here.
Joplin Schools Open
Joplin’s school system has become a powerful symbol of resilience and recovery as students, teachers and administrators prepare to start on time on Aug. 17, 2011 despite a devastating tornado in May that killed 160 people. I spent a few days in Joplin and was amazed by the “get it done” attitude and just [...]
Country Doctor of the Year
Family practitioner Ken Jackson is known around Kingman, Ariz., as the “Cowboy Baby Doctor,” though he says the nickname is a bit misleading — he doesn’t always ride a horse or wear his cowboy hat, and he prefers alternative rock to country music. But for the past three years, Jackson has traveled by horseback once [...]
Voices Afghanistan
If you could bring an American to Afghanistan, what would you show them? I posed this question to the nearly twenty-five marines of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment based at the remote outpost named COP Kunjak in the Helmand Province. The marines were nearing the finish of a seven month tour of duty in [...]
Run Amuck with the Nikon D3S
The third annual Run Amuck 3.5-mile event featured 2,130 runners at the Marine Corps Base Quantico featuring race obstacles, military PT drills and pits of mud on the course. My first assignment using the new Nikon D3S shooting both video and stills. Pretty amazing how easy the camera is to use while shooting video. Talk [...]
1/2 Marines in Helmand
Shot with the Nikon D3S, a video to accompany the story published in USA TODAY on 10/27/2010 describing the 2010 combat tour by the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment in the Helmand Province hit by more than 240 IED’s.
Shaun White Secret Halfpipe
Reason number 1,673 why this job is so cool. Nine months before the start of the Vancouver Olympics, I found myself just below the top of a 13,487 foot mountain in Silverton, Colorado hanging out with Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Shawn White. His sponsor Red Bull had built a super secret halfpipe for Shaun and [...]
Snowpacolypse 2010
The big snow hit DC last week. Two to three feet covered most of the region. Wandering around the mall with snow covered monuments is a remarkable sight. At one point, the Vietnam War Memorial was completely devoid of any pedestrian traffic.
USA TODAY Decade In Review
Jack Gruber talks about his work from 2000-2009 at USA TODAY. A decade of photos captured by the staff highlighted in an online presentation at USA TODAY.com complete with comments from each photographer. The complete presentation with commentary from the entire staff can be found here.
Sportsshooter Decade Collection
This photo I shot in 2004 in Afghanistan is part of a collection at Sportsshooter.com of photos and photographers talking about their most memorable photo taken in the past ten years. A pretty remarkable collection of stories along with the incredible photography.
Combat Stress Therapists
Video from Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan in late October 2009 following the work of a USAF combat stress team deployed in remote area of Afghanistan. The story written by USA TODAY reporter Gregg Zoroya and video by USA TODAY photographer Jack Gruber was published in conjunction with the breaking news story from the rampage at Fort [...]
Iraq: Third Tour of Duty
This project published July 29, 2005 focused on Cpl. James Welter, Jr serving his third tour of duty with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment in Iraq.
