Telling The Story

If you've read this blog regularly in the past year, you probably already know: I love being a dad. We welcomed our daughter nearly nine months ago, and my life has been permanently transformed. So has the desire to balance my time at home with my time at work. I wrote about these subjects in the recent issue of News Photographer magazine. I didn't realize what would stand alongside my column on the next page. It was a piece from Autumn Payne, a photographer and videographer at the Sacramento Bee, titled, "Yes, you can raise a family and do killer photojournalism, too." I read it. I loved it. Payne's words spoke to me as a new parent, even if she's a few years further in the process. She wrote around raising her four-month-old daughter while maintaining a foothold in the world of journalism. Check out her web site. She's crushing it. Payne is my guest on Episode #69 of the Telling the Story podcast. This is a worthy conversation, for new parents and for those who plan to one day become parents. Even the most