The Photo Dude

Yesterday I had to cover a meeting. I don’t mind covering meetings because generally they are real and the participants are far more engaged with…

When I think of family values I don’t go the same route as the conservatives or the liberals, I don’t think it has to be…

By RICHARD SAYER Staff writer On her shoulder is a self portrait, a half face looking straight out blankly… lost. The face fades away as…

Randy Novak lives in Cooperstown but comes down to Oil City to hang out at The Point. He didn’t want me to tell anyone what…

This is not a local story really, though the man I’m writing about visited Allegheny College just a few months ago. Tired and a little…

I don’t know what constitutes ‘going viral’ on the internet, but last Friday as i went out to get something out of my car I…

Editing! This is one of the toughest things for a photographer to do or have to accept being done for them. We have images we…

    Here are a few images I liked from Thursday’s Chamber event that may or may not make it to the paper Friday. Some…

Last year, as I was driving to work from Meadville through Franklin, I saw a man with an interesting hat thumbing a ride. I thought…

Virtually all newspaper photographers take dozens of pictures for a story that never make it into the next day’s paper. Years ago this was a…

Over the years I have had a lot of people who love to take pictures come up to me wanting to show me their photos…

Something many might not realize about a photographer/reporter relationship at a paper is how much just understanding the style of each plays into how well…

Hello, this is my first blog post for Venango Extra, a product of The Derrick and News-Herald newspaper. In this blog I hope to share…