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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 28/12/2024 (264 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
As 2024 draws to a close, I have filed 3,483 photos this year from hundreds of assignments for The Brandon Sun.
War photographer Robert Capa sums it up well: “If your photos aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
My goal in daily newspaper photography is to bring readers into the thick of myriad events and news that make up Westman.
A young couple kisses under a rainbow on the midway at the Manitoba Summer Fair in Brandon in June. (Photos by Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
This means I try to get as close to the story as possible. I try to show up early, stay late, look for nice light and compositions and find angles that are unique or tell the story from a different perspective.
Hopefully, this gives our readers connection to the people and stories that make up Brandon and Westman.
A honey bee casts a shadow through a poppy while collecting pollen on an early July morning.
A herd of elk forage in a field of growing grain bordering Kirkham Road northwest of Brandon in July.
Cynthia Noel with Sioux Valley Dakota Nation’s Unity Riders pets horse Felix while preparing to escort 11 bison (often referred to as buffalo in Dakota culture) through Birdtail Sioux First Nation to their new home in an enclosure in Birdtail’s valley earlier this month. The bison, including one white bison, were a gift to Birdtail from Sioux Valley.
Eleven bison, including one white bison, are released into their new enclosure in the river valley at Birdtail Sioux First Nation earlier this month.
Five-year-old Declan Steppler of Miami, Man., rests on a Charolais bull named Throttle from Steppler Farms during the first day of Manitoba Ag Ex at the Keystone Centre.
Herman Lepp with the Brandon Waterski Club kicks up a wall of spray while slalom skiing on the Assiniboine River in Brandon as the sun rises over the horizon in August.
A crop of canola in bloom blankets the prairie bordering the small lake/pond as ski jumper Casey Mommer trains in late July on a small pond near Rapid City.
A Parks Canada employee conducts visual inspections for signs of zebra mussels near the Clear Lake boat cove in Riding Mountain National Park in July, 2024. Parks Canada announced at the time they had found evidence of localized zebra mussel infiltration at the boat cove. “Given all of those troubling facts, it should be abundantly clear that this is no time for a celebration. To the contrary, what has happened at Clear Lake is an ecological and economic disaster, caused by a selfish and/or negligent few, who either didn’t comprehend or didn’t care about the dire long-term consequences of what they were doing. The situation is unfixable. It will only worsen with each passing year, adversely affecting more and more Manitobans as it does so,” writes Brandon Sun columnist Deveryn Ross.
Aleca Antonakis peers at the solar eclipse through special glasses as the sun and passing moon poke through cloud cover over Brandon during a viewing party in April for the celestial event at Brandon University.
Lukas Trout of Brandon airs into the bowl at the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation skatepark during a skateboarding demo put on by Recovery Skateshop as part of the first day of the inaugural Dakota FACTS Camp in July. The camp is aimed primarily at Dakota youth between the ages of 13 to 18 and consists of a variety of events, teachings, entertainment and sports around the themes of Food, Agriculture, Climate Change, Tradition and Synergies (FACTS).