Category Archives: Derek

GPS: Grand Proposal System

When thinking of ways to propose to my girlfriend of 19 months, the wonderful Kristin Lammi, I came up with all kinds of ideas many of which were bad.  There was the idea that I would find a refrigerator box, pack myself up inside it and wait for her to come home and start inspecting...

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Fireworks!!

Saturday night was the 4th of July (obviously), which meant fireworks at Bayfront.  I decided I was just going to get some shots of the show from our place in the park using my new camera and it didn’t disappoint.  There was a large grain elevator right in front of where the fireworks were going...

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I’m Back!

OK, so it’s been way too long since I’ve posted here and I’ve been meaning too.  It’s kinda crazy how busy an unemployed former newspaper photographer can be, but that’s been the case over the past month or so.  I’ve done a triathlon, travelled home for a wedding, shot a couple of assignments, would up...

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Bringin’ home the hardware… posthumously.

I received some pretty cool news last night from my former co-worker Brandon Stahl.  Brandon was down in the Twin Cities at the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists banquet and informed me that I took home two first place awards in the under 50,000 circulation newspapers in the General News and Sports divisions.  It was...

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