Gene Blevins: Photographer: LA Daily news
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COVERAGE: Coverage from Moore OK tornado Damage.. I was out tornado chasing for that week in the mid west and was on a TVS thunder storm 60 miles away from Moore OK, once i started getting info on large tornado was in the OK city area we turn around and headed that way. We tried to catch up with the tornado east of Moore but it died out and then we headed to city of Moore. We had get through massive traffic jams and drove along a side road on highway 35 and came into the Moore medical center mall area that look like a nuke went off ! I jump out of the car and went into full action news mode of shooting none stop for 3hrs. We figured we came into the scene about 30-45 minutes after impact and timing was everything as we got the last 3 rescues of nurses being taking out of a hart clinic building. Once done we had to drive about 12+ miles to the south just to get 4G coverage due to all the cell towers and power was out for miles! We had to send photos and video asap and spent the next 4hrs in a KFC parking lot in Purcell OK. The rest of the photos can be seen on my FB that tell the hole story. May 20,2013. ©Photos by Gene Blevins/LA DailyNews/Reuters©
More photos can be on the Daily News web sight and on my FB page.
I am an Action News Photographer and have been shooting freelance photography full-time with the Los Angeles Daily News for the past 24 years. Additionally, my credits include photographs for the EPN (20 years), as well as for Reuters, Corbis, Polaris Images, ZumaPress, AP.
My career has been fortunate as I have taken photographs of some of the major stories in Los Angeles from the 1990 Floods; 1992 Los Angeles riots; 1993 OJ Simpson chase;1993 Malibu fire storm; 1994 Northridge earthquake; and the 1997 North Hollywood shoot out. Additionally, photos on February 1, 2003, of the space shuttle Columbia re-entering over California -- minutes before breaking up over Texas; the Southern California fire storms of 2003, the first historical landings of two Mars rovers: Spirit and Opportunity at JPL. Historic flight of SpaceShipOne; La Conchita, California landslide 2005; Michael Jackson Trial 2005; STS-114 Space Shuttle Discovery Return to Flight; and Last of the Titan 4 rocket launches after 50 years of service.
I have been shooting digital for 14 years and am fully equipped with digital and transmitting capabilities via on-site location. I welcome traveling to cover any news or sporting event. Depending upon my availability, please feel free to contact me on a short notice basis.
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