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Thank you Chip Litherland for covering this story with class
Brian Blanco, Photographer
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Tampa / Sarasota | FL | USA | Posted: 7:30 PM on 09.14.09 |
->> A little over a week ago the granddaughter of a friend of mine was killed in a senseless act of gun violence following a Friday night high school football game. The young lady was a respectful, young cheerleader with a promising future and a school full of friends. Her grandmother was a former co-worker at my old newspaper who is as sweet and as admired as her granddaughter was.
Needless to say I wondered what the coverage would turn out to look like and how it would be handled.
I was out of town for the funeral but when I learned that Chip Litherland covered it I knew it would turn out something like this...
http://chiplitherland.com/blog/2009/09/jazmines-goodbye/
Thank you Chip. |
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Jamey Price, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Charlotte | NC | USA | Posted: 8:23 PM on 09.14.09 |
| ->> Powerful is a good word I think. Im sorry to hear about the cheerleader though. A professor at my college lost his daughter in a similar and senseless manor. |
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Chip Litherland, Photographer
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Sarasota | FL | USA | Posted: 8:47 PM on 09.14.09 |
->> Brian -
Thanks for the post, man...really appreciate it. All I can say it was an amazingly sad story to work on, but hopefully some good comes out of the story and photos being out there in the community.
If you want to see more posts and read a little more about it, just go to my main blog page.
http://www.chiplitherland.com/blog/
or just click on my Sportsshooter gallery and you can find the photos and links there.
Chip |
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Gerry Melendez, Photographer
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Columbia | SC | USA | Posted: 11:52 PM on 09.14.09 |
| ->> Thoughtful images. Quiet and moving. Nice job Chip. It was good to read your blog as well. These stories have quite an effect on you as a journalist, but like you said "hopefully some good comes out of the story and photos." I'm sure that has already happened in some way. |
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Renay Johnson, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | | Posted: 1:11 AM on 09.15.09 |
| ->> You captured some personal moments in these images. Thank you for sharing them. |
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David Croxford, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Honolulu | HI | USA | Posted: 5:38 AM on 09.15.09 |
| ->> Nice work Chip. Funerals are always tough, but you made images that respectfully show the heartache and pain of such a great loss. As the months pass by the family will be glad that you were there. |
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