Photojournalist - Lara Hartley - Behind the Viewfinder

Kelso Dunes (5 images)

While waiting for this play to start I kept watching the student actors stick their heads out of the curtain - checking out the audience - waving hello to their friends.

The graphic quality of the blue expanse of curtain and the made-up faces said "Yahoo! - Hey Lara - this could be cool!"

The mystical quality of this one child - in this one image - touches me still.

Maybe kid pics aren't so bad afterall.

The Desert Dispatch, Barstow

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This was shot to accompany a story on one decent motel amongst a bunch of sleazy ones in Barstow. Starkey was a long time resident of the Torches Motel. The Desert Dispatch, Barstow

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Las Vegas(5 images)

Civil War Reenactment(10 images)

The faces in the ferris wheel.

Journal February 23, 1998

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This is one of those found images that only I seem to like so it never has run. Darn again.

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I really like this image. But I let someone else make the decision on whether or not to run this verticle or a similar horizontal image. They liked the horizontal better and I didn't just my own judgement enough to choose this shot, which I could have. Darn.

A Joint Armed Forces Color Guard raises the American and California flags at the new Barstow Field Office of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Tuesday morning's ceremony marked the opening of the office at 528 E. Virgina Way.

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I love graphic images - things that go swoop or curve or make interesting patterns - especially if there are people in them. This shot ran 4 columns - our usual lead art for page 1. A new water slide park is under construction at Lake Dolores, just outside of Barstow.

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This image was made while working on a story about the enlarged BNSF repair facility in Barstow. This shot was not appropriate for the story, but I just liked the patterns that the trucks made with the engines in the background.

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The pursuit of wild art can have unexpected results when a photographer is willing to see beyond the quick read...and the paper is willing to try something different. The Desert Dispatch

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The county fair carousel in Fort Dodge IA on a stormy summer's day. The Messenger, Fort Dodge

Lara Hartley

< lara@digitalstoryteller.com >
Photographer
Desert Dispatch, Barstow, CA

Other journals by Lara Hartley

362	April 28, 2000	Stand-off with a dead man
302	July 14, 1999	When the steam train came to town.
298	July 8, 1999	Time flies and the older you get the faster it boogies..
274	May 1, 1999	ET Phone Home
266	April 20, 1999	Time off - HAH!
241	March 3, 1999	Things that go boom in the night and Military Police
231	Febrary 21, 1999	The hunt for red, (or green, or cyan) wild art.
218	February 8, 1999	I don't do weddings.
217	February 7, 1999	James K. gets to have all the fun.
216	February 4, 1999	Vultures or newsgatherers?
214	February 2, 1999	Ain't PhotoShop wonderful.
211	January 31, 1999	Life really is just a country song, and when I die I am goin' to Willie's house
163	October 27, 1998	So, what's your work space look like?!
133	August 12, 1998	Personal work
131	August 8, 1998	Just Because
122	July 29, 1998	Kids make great pics
121	July 28, 1998	What is fear, really?
116	July 19, 1998	The wannabe emperor has no clothes.
98	June 18, 1998	To da dump, to da dump, to da dump dump dump.
96	June 16, 1998	T-shirts to tombstones
90	June 9, 1998	Miss Exotic World
83	May 30, 1998	All the world a stage
80	May 27, 1998	Lately it seems as if it is coming too easy.
62	April 18, 1998	Snakes and Saints
53	April 1, 1998	Dating - part deux - update
50	March 31, 1998	The beauty of the bloom
37	March 15, 1998	Kelso Dunes (Photo Essay)
34	March 1 , 1998	I love B1
31	February 25, 1998	BORING, BORING, BORING
27	February 23, 1998	Faces in the ferris wheel
24	February 21, 1998	Dead bodies have blue feet
23	February 20, 1998	Hoop Skirts and Harlots
17	February 13, 1998	Friday the 13th and a full moon - oh my!
14	February 8, 1998	Parts is parts.
12	February 3, 1998	There are few things that are more frightening than dating
1	January, 1998	The word pictures answer the questions that the photograph asks

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