Joe Paterno
I only covered one Illinois football game against Penn State University back in 2009… looks like I won’t be getting another chance to photograph Joe Paterno. Oh well.
State Football
Two of our local teams made it to the IHSA state football tournament this year, so I got to freeze my butt off shooting Tuscola in the 1A game and Maroa-Forsyth in the 2A. Both teams dominated all year long, but lost by big margins in the final games. It was the coldest game of the [...]
Grass
One of my morning assignments had me walking through fields of 14-foot tall grass. University of Illinois researchers are studying the grass, known as Miscanthus, as a source of biofuel. Andrew Wycislo, a graduate research assistant with the U of I’s Energy Biosciences Institute, who led me around the different plots of grass said they [...]