Archive for the ‘Event’ Category

High at 19

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

I was a sports photo stringer for two local newspapers when I was a teenager in northern Virginia. One evening, when I was just 19 years old,  I convinced the powers that be at the Capital Centre, home of the Washington Bullets, to let me photograph the Bullets – 76ers game from the catwalk directly over a basket. All I have from that experience is this single copy from the next day’s newspaper showing Elvin Hayes attempting to stop Dr. J from scoring.

They Like Airplanes

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

The photo editors at The New York Times chose another of my Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base photos for their Pictures of the Day.

Radioactive Oops

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Dr. Amit Maity, Chief, Radiation Oncology Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadephia listens as charges, that his hospital improperly inserted radioactive seeds into patients, are read during US Nuclear Regulatory Commission enforcement hearings, Thu. Dec. 17, 2009 in Rockville, Md.

Dr. Amit Maity  © 2009 Cliff Owen

He Made Medical History

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

On Thanksgiving day, Army Dr. Col. Craig Shriver did what had never been done for a combat wounded soldier. The bullet-scarred pancreas from an Air Force Airman who was shot in Afghanistan was flown from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to the University of Miami, where insulin-producing cells were salvaged from the organ and flown back to be dropped into the man’s liver.

Read the Miami Herald story in here:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1383912.html

Army Dr. Shriver   © 2009 Cliff Owen

Army Dr. Craig Shriver, Chief of General Surgery, Walter Reed Army Medical Center photographed at a press conference 12/15  for McClatchy-Tribune


Forever Blue

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Whitney Dangefield and Mark Sparrough dance their first dance as a married couple at Raspberry Plain in Leesburg, Virginia.

Forever Blue Dance

A Cold Rain

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

President Obama departed for Asia on Thursday, a blustery day at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

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Travel Toys

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Marine One & Air Force One

U.S. Military personal await the departure of President Obama, who has just transferred from Marine One to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, October 20, 2009.

Photographed for the Associated Press

Can You Spare a Glass of Water?

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster speaks with reporters after attending a hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, October 13, 2009, regarding the water rights of the Catawba River for North and South Carolina. Shot for McClatchy News Service.