The Weather Channel

What a rough week it was last week! 60 mile per hour winds and wildfires sparking across all of the big country. Shooting in the wind was pretty miserable... I even saw one of the KTXS photogs decked out in some goggles and a bandana covering his face! He looking really goofy but made everyone around him jealous with his protective wind gear! The fires had me running all about the big country! Through Thursday and Friday I made it to Lueders, Clyde, Eula, Cisco, Albany and Anson twice... Mostly in our extremely conspicuous live van that maxes out at about 75 MPH. It had it out for me. Bruises are still healing from where the live van door continually swung around hit me while I was getting my gear...

However... This weekend I realized that it's sometimes worth it. I had the chance to ride along with the Texas Forest Service on Friday. They took me as deep as they could into the thousands of acres of fires that plagued Albany and Eastland. I shot as much as I could in the little time I had and rushed back to get it on the news that night. On Saturday, I was checking out the forecast on the weather channel and as they began talking about Texas conditions, up pops MY video! I was the only news photographer whose video of the Texas wildfires was available to the weather channel apparently. I know that my video gets picked up occasionally for national news but I've certainly never seen it happen before. It was thrilling. I saw it again on Sunday! Same video on the weather channel.

Exciting stuff for a newby in the news photoging business.


Oh and here's a random picture of us girls in KTAB's newsroom