Las Vegas Photographer Tiffany Brown

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20100517 farewell cake....

On Friday, a little while after the newsroom gathering, good-bye ritual with words and cake, I noticed that the office manager, Nadine, had cut up the entire (giant! and lovely) sheet cake except for my name, Tiffany. Sweet, I thought.

A few hours later as I went to leave the newsroom for the final time as a staffer, I passed the cake and saw that this is what was left as I made my exit. Made me smile….

20100514 final story for the las vegas sun

Today was my last day as a staff photographer at the Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Media Group, where I have worked for a little over four years. For my final story for the paper, it worked out to be the perfect time to do an update on Tom and Kathy Urbanski, who I have been following since he was shot four times and paralyzed from the waist down while working as a bouncer at a Las Vegas strip club in Feb. 2007.

Now, a little over three years later, Tom has achieved a goal that once seemed impossible: to play the guitar again. He named his new band, “Four Bullets Later,” and they debuted last Saturday night at Hogs & Heifers Saloon in downtown Vegas.

This is a glimpse at Tom’s journey to reclaim a precious part of his former life, and return to the stage. This video project was co-produced with videographer Katie Euphrat.

In addition to working on today’s update, Katie and I also re-edited the original mixed media video I did in 2008 looking at Tom and Kathy’s difficult journey through their first year after the shooting.

20100506 a thursday evening

A first blue ribbon for the first-grader, and an evening swim….

20100506 contest and freelance news

As I prepare to leave my position as a staff photographer for the Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Media Group to build my freelance business full-time, it was fun to learn I won third place in the slideshow category of the Best of the West journalism contest yesterday.

The slideshow was for my end of the year page that we do at the paper each year. I focused on pictures of “details” that I had made in 2009. The page that ran in the paper is below and the slideshow that was recognized in Best of the West is here.

As for me, next Friday will be my last day with GMG after four great years. I will remain based in Las Vegas and will immediately be available for assignments here in southern Nevada, and anywhere.

My web site will be getting a complete redesign over the next couple months and will include a great deal of new work, including portraits and multimedia portfolios. Please get in touch if you have questions about my work or have a project you would like to work with me on.

20100329 roller vegas....

a late night assignment at the palms’ monthly roller skating party, “down and derby,” in rain nightclub. a silly, mostly locals, good time.

20100322 seeing green...

i’m getting back to focusing on seeing pictures as life returns to a schedule in vegas. with joe elbert here as our temporary director of photography, i’m having fun bringing my takes back and editing with him. these are a few we liked from my feature hunting on the las vegas strip on st. patrick’s day….

20100318 on celebrating, in life and death...

today is my dad’s birthday. it’s the first one i’ll celebrate without him – try to figure out how, what feels right. i do feel that it needs to be a celebration though, despite the flowing tears that can’t help but come up.

i felt the same about his memorial service. we would honor his life by celebrating it, instead of focusing entirely on our mourning.

on sunday, feb. 28, a small group of our family and nearly family friends sailed a 46’ morgan ketch, covered in beautiful flowers and adorned with images of dad’s life, into the gulf of mexico outside the venice inlet in florida, where my father loved to sail.

we shared memories of dad and made new ones together while remembering his life. though we will always miss him, we are grateful for the time we had together. now, he will live on in our hearts….

20100305 rest in peace, papa

just after my father took his last breath, on february 12, 2010, a hopsice nurse slipped a purple flower into his still hand, put a candle on the bedside table and left me to absorb the moment and say good-bye, as the sun slowly went down outside the sarasota hospice house. this single moment will stay with me forever…

every word of support, condolences and love that everyone has sent in emails, facebook, cards and calls has meant the world. every singe one of them. thanks so much….

the hardest thing i have ever written is here.

20091006 wsj boomers....

The middle of last month just before I had shoulder surgery I had the pleasure of shooting a story for the Wall Street Journal and was assigned to work with my former Las Vegas Sun, Pulitzer Prize writing colleague, Alexandra Berzon. What fun!

The story is a look at traveling construction workers, called “Boomers,” who have been stranded in Las Vegas since the construction industry has come to a screeching hault here, and everywhere, particularly in the last 18 months.

A slideshow is on the WSJ site with the story. These are a few of the workers stuck in Vegas, with families, expenses and no work.

20090909 bottoms up

really? did i really just make that the name of this blog post? oh well. it must be one of those days. it’s been a good one, a busy one filled with shooting, setting up future assignments and getting bits of good news here and there. could they all just be like today, please?

this is a random picture from a few months ago at hoover dam. hadn’t done anything with it and hadn’t trashed it, so thought i’d share it. maybe it’ll bring a smile. saludos….

20090829 RIP DJ AM, et al....

death close to home is always difficult to hear. it’s been even rougher to learn of other’s loss of late as i face battles against cancer and illness with my dad right now. but after multiple public figures, and friends of friends deaths in the last couple weeks, hearing dj am was found dead last night was a bit of icing on the cake. WHAT?!

i heard am spin only once – on one of his resident dj friday nights at rain nightclub in the palms earlier this summer. but it was awesome, especially come 2am when the top-40 hits turned to deeper electronic beats and maran and i made our way to the stage, dancing up a storm. it was a blast of a night with great photo friends in town for the nppa conference and it was sealed by dj am. in honor, here’s two frames from the evening….rip dj am.

to anyone who has lost a friend or relative recently, my heart goes out to you. unconcerned with cliche, may we all remember to savor each breath, good and bad moment, love and disappointment. it’s all so precious, fleeting and blessed.

ps…..on the upside, it seems like everyone i know is having babies, or just got knocked up! :-) so here’s to the newest generation and those on their way. my biggest of congratulations to all of you and your beautiful bundles….rob & fran, barb & andres, marvi & ben, ryan & jen, chip & elaine, rob & Amelia, annie & super and so many others….