Photo Journalist

Sam is officially a photo journalist!!! It is no surprise to many of us! We all know he is an amazing photographer and is incredible at telling a story with pictures.

He started on Thursday at the Bay of Plenty Times. He was supposed to shadow one of the photographers, but as with talented photographers he was thrown in because they knew he was good and could handle it.

We walked around the corner to get the paper today to see if his shots were in there. YEP!!! ON page 2 was one of the stories he took on Thursday. Below is his first official picture in the Times (He was in there one time before, but now he is in there as one of their photographers).



It's pretty exciting to see him push through these doors. He laid down doing weddings and families and will only do them on rare occasions. The family we nanny for LOVES Sam and asked him to do their family. He can't resist their littlest guy Cruz. Well, truth be told Cruz can't resist him. We walk in and Cruz gets so excited he doesn't know what to do with himself. Then he proceeds to follow Sam around the whole time.


There are 3 boys but the older two are 13 and 9. I nannied for them before I started my job at Salvation Army. Right as I started the older boys headed to Uruguay for 2 months to live with their dad who is Uruguayan and over there at the time. We had Cruzy all the time, for weekends at a time. Sam and him are pretty connected and we love watching their family. So when the mom asked Sam to take pictures I smiled to myself thinking there are very few kids Sam would pick up his camera for again and these guys are some of them. We watch them on Thursday nights now. Each week we order pizza...this week we had to get ribs too and Cruzy is quite enjoying them as you can see and play with boys and put them to bed and enjoy their warm house with two fireplaces!! It melts my heart to watch how good Sam is with boys and especially with his little shadow Cruzy.





Sam will be working three days a week at the paper, which happens to be two blocks from my work!!! This gives him some time and freedom to work on some projects that he has wanted to do and submit other places and still have his foot in the door in photojournalism. We will keep you updated on his work but just wanted you to see his first official picture in the paper!!!