Black Friday

I spent Friday morning covering Black Friday. Here are my favorites from the day. Thanks for looking, comments, feedback always welcomed.

Mike

'We are not just numbers in a study'

Mary Freshwater, of Greenville, holds a stained piece of clothing and bottle of her infant son who died soon after being born with an open spine. Freshwater showed the items to the National Research Council committee on contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune at the USO in Jacksonville on Thursday.

Read the story here-
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20071118/NEWS/711180403

"General Drift"

Charles Seaton, Jr. with his car "General Drift" Friday, Nov. 2, 2007. For profile story on drift cars an the people who own them. Staff Photo By Mike Spencer/STAR-NEWS

Join Our Town..........

Nicholas Pryor, with the organization "Join Our Town," gestures to a voter as they walk towards the polling location at the Hampstead Community Building Tuesday, November 6, 2007.Hampstead voters went to the polls to vote on the incorporation of Hampstead. The incorporation of Hampstead, NC did not pass. Staff Photo By Mike Spencer/STAR-NEWS

Ocean Isle Beach Fire coverage

This past Sunday myself, fellow photographer Briana Brough and Star-News Director of Photography Mark Courtney documented the events as they developed at the scene of a deadly fire on Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. Below is the front page of The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. The New York Times and several other newspapers published the images. Star-News Director of Photography Mark Courtney updated starnewsonline.com and transmitted images to the Associated Press and New York Times wire. I spent most of the time across the street from the chapel documenting mourners grieving the loss of loved ones. Being news photographers, It is our job to document and record events. Sometimes they are happy events or sadly they are tragic ones. The goal is to do it with sensitivity and respect. Capturing storytelling images and being sensitive to those you are covering, it’s a thin line. I feel we did a great job covering the story, writers included. Below is a link to a gallery of images from the scene-

http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=WM&Dato=20071028&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=1028003&Ref=PH

Sea Creatures

King Cobra ultrasound

A king Cobra at the Capr Fear Serpentarium is sedated before receiving an ultrasound to get a better look at an esophageal mass Monday, Oct. 15, 2007.Staff Photo By Mike Spencer/STAR-NEWS