Plein air paintings capture pre-flood Ellicott City

Aug 5, 2016

Plein air paintings capture pre-flood Ellicott City

Steve Earley 0 Comment Maryland, The Baltimore Sun art, ellicott city, flooding, floods, Maryland, natural disasters, painting, paintings, plein air

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Three weeks before flood waters raged through the streets of historic Ellicott City, artists perched on its sidewalks and hillsides to paint what they saw, sights, it turned out, that in many cases may never look quite the same again.

Forming a unique composite of how the area appeared right before the disaster, the dozens of works created during the Howard County Arts Council‘s annual plein air paint out are also providing a means to help artists recover from it.

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Sun photographer Lloyd Pearson captured moments in time

May 9, 2014

Sun photographer Lloyd Pearson captured moments in time

Robert Hamilton 0 Comment Maryland, Photo essays, The Baltimore Sun 1968 Riots, Baltimore Colts, Baltimore Orioles, Blaze Starr, Cal Ripken Jr, Chesapeak Bay Bridge, ellicott city, George Wallace, Johnny Unitas, Lloyd Pearson, Memorial Stadium, National Aquarium, Tropical Storm Agnes, William Donald Schaefer

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In a recurring series, The Darkroom takes a look back at some of the talented photojournalists who have helped enrich the pages of The Baltimore Sun. One such photographer was Lloyd Pearson.

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May 5, 2014

Howard High softball all-access

Jon Sham 0 Comment Maryland, The Baltimore Sun, Video Alli Jakubek, Berit Batterton, Chuck Rice, Courtney Merson, ellicott city, Howard County Times, howard high school, Howard softball, Kayli Paugh, Mt. Hebron, Taylor McGrann

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Take a behind-the-scenes look into the Howard High School softball program, usually one of the top teams in the county. Head coach Chuck Rice and several players give insight into this year’s team as they practice for and face rival Mt. Hebron – who ended their 2013 playoff run – in a rainy, scrappy battle for first place on April 25.

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Photo compilations of Atholton vs. Mt. Hebron baseball

Apr 25, 2014

Photo compilations of Atholton vs. Mt. Hebron baseball

Jon Sham 0 Comment Maryland, Sports, The Baltimore Sun Atholton, baseball, ellicott city, howard county, Mt. Hebron, sports

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Here is a series of photo compilations from a baseball game between two Howard County teams: Atholton and Mt. Hebron on Thursday, April 24. Each image was made in Photoshop using three images taken fractions of a second apart. [More on how I did this below.]

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MICA student blends history and gender in fashion

Apr 4, 2014

MICA student blends history and gender in fashion

Jon Sham 0 Comment Maryland, The Baltimore Sun, Video Amadeus Guchhait, ellicott city, fashion, gender, history, maryland institute college of art, mica

9 Photos, 1 Video

In his pale gray waistcoat, charcoal corduroys, and crisp white dress shirt buttoned to the neck, a burgundy ribbon tied around the collar, Amadeus Guchhait looks like he’s from another era.
So does his art.

Guchhait, a junior at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and an Ellicott City native, has spent the semester creating a collection of clothing that unites disparate time periods and cultures as a commentary on western notions of identity and cultural appropriation. Read more here

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Jan 14, 2014

A Spanish New Year in Howard County

Jon Sham 0 Comment Maryland, Photo essays, The Baltimore Sun Dick Story, ellicott city, howard county, Howard County Ballet, Kathi Ferguson, Spanish, Spanish New Year, St. John's Episcopal Church

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The Howard County Concert Orchestra, with help from the Howard County Ballet, held a “Spanish New Year’s Celebration” at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Ellicott City on Sunday, Jan. 12. Dick Story was the master of ceremonies and Kathi Ferguson directed the dancers, who wore authentic costumes.

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Best of High School Sports: Spring Edition

Jun 1, 2013

Best of High School Sports: Spring Edition

Jon Sham 0 Comment High School sports, Sports, The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, baseball, Clarksville, cockeysville, columbia, ellicott city, fulton, high school, howard county, lacrosse, softball, sports, towson, track and field

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Photographers in the Baltimore Sun Media Group shoot at dozens of high school sporting events in the spring. Softball, baseball and lacrosse are the most common team sports, but track and field and tennis are covered as well. Of all of their shutter clicks, photographers Jen Rynda, Brian Krista, Jon Sham, Gene Sweeney Jr., Karl Merton Ferron, Algerina Perna, Lloyd Fox and Kenneth K. Lam compiled some of their favorites from this season. It’s the Best of High School Sports: Spring Edition.

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Apr 24, 2013

Training to fight fire in Howard County

Jen Rynda 0 Comment Maryland, The Baltimore Sun ellicott city, fire, Howard County Fire Department, Maryland

18 photos, 1 video

I can’t speak for all photographers, but taking photos of a raging fire has a firm position on my “photos I’d love to take” bucket list.

The caveat being that no one gets hurt.

Recently, I had the opportunity to photograph and shoot video of the Howard County Fire Department’s controlled demolition burn in Ellicott City, Md. Trainees worked with instructors to control and observe how fires travel through a home. It was interesting to see how the trainees worked together and kept their cool through an extremely hot situation. I’m not quite sure how they manage to move so quickly in their heavy clothes and heavier gear (and here I thought my tripod was heavy!).

Photographing the trainees and burning homes was a memorable experience and while they were practicing their skills, I was too… Just in case I ever do get that bucket list photo.

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Dec 28, 2012

2012: Baltimore Sun’s Year in Pictures

Robert Hamilton 0 Comment Maryland, Preakness, The Baltimore Sun Arlington National Cemetery, Art Modell, Cal Ripken, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Chincoteague, Clarence Mitchell lll, dolphins, elephants, ellicott city, Fort McHenry, Hurricane Sandy, lacrosse, Matt Wieters, Nick Markakis, Orioles, Pimlico, police, Preakness, Ravens, Ray Rice, Ringling Brothers, Sailabration, Same-sex marriage, sea trials, sunflower, Terrell Suggs, train wreck, USNA

75 photos

Wilson Hicks, former Executive Editor for Life Magazine, once wrote, “The most graphic reporting is eyewitness reporting. ‘I was there, I saw it happen, it was like this.’ In journalistic print, the firsthand account which comes closest to reproducing the actuality of an event is the picture…”

Baltimore Sun photographers were on hand to witness and photograph the highs and lows of 2012, from the resurgent Orioles making the playoffs for the first time in 15 years to the devastation of Superstorm Sandy.

The images in this gallery are a sampling of these pictures as selected by Sun Director of Photography Robert Hamilton. Some of these photographs are from significant events that shaped the lives of people; others are small moments of universal truths.

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Nov 2, 2012

Robert Kniesche: A life devoted to Baltimore and photography

Robert Hamilton 0 Comment Maryland, The Baltimore Sun Baltimore Colts, Baltimore Harbor, Chesapeake Bay, Crisfield, dairy farm, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eastern Avenue, ellicott city, Ft. Carroll, H. L. Mencken, Harry S Truman, Highlandtown, Jones Falls Expressway, Lenny Moore, O'Sullivan Building, Orioles, oyster boat, Park Avenue, Paul Richards, Robert F. Kniesche, Sparrows Point, York Road

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The Baltimore Sun newspaper has a rich history of photojournalism. Since publishing its first photograph on September 30, 1901 The Sun has employed a long line of award winning photographers. To pay tribute to these photographers, The Darkroom will periodically take a look back at the body of work by some of these photographers whose love of their craft helped document the lives of people from the backstreets of Baltimore to the four corners of the globe.

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