"The Missoulian is a wonderful place to shoot. The staff is very encouraging and full of advice so I am more motivated to be a journalist daily. I was skeptical about shooting the town I grew up in, but I am excited to see what the photo assignment sheet has in store for me every day.
"My favorite assignments so far are the ones that take me way into the backwoods of Montana. Two weeks ago I traveled into the mountains near Superior to shoot archaeologists restoring an old Chinese mining community called China Gulch. It is over 100 years old and sits in the middle of the mountains. Yesterday I got to travel again into the Lolo National Forest, but closer to Bonner. We drove about an hour into the mountains and finally had to stop the truck and start hiking because the roads were so bad. They were restoring a fire lookout built in the 1930s called Mineral Peak Lookout. We were so high in elevation we could see a miniature Snobowl Ski Area and the Rattlesnake Wilderness. It was beautiful! If this is what I signed up for to do for the rest of my I am a very lucky person!
"The picture I sent you is of a bunch of young high school cowboys perched on a fence at a high school rodeo. It was my first cover shot for the Missoulian and it ran without a story!"
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