Secrets of Sandusky Part III

Now the final installment on the Freemason's influence on Sandusky, Ohio. Below you will find the entire interview with Gary Miller, a Sandusky-based Mason. Yes, there is a break in the video. No, we aren't hiding anything. Zack's phone rang. We stopped the camera and then restarted a minute later. That's it. No conspiracy. Enjoy the interview.




Thanks for watching!
-Billau

Secrets of Sandusky Part II

Well, here's last night's story I did with Zack about the Freemason's influence on the design of Sandusky, Ohio.





As always, thanks for watching!
-Billau

Secrets of Sandusky Part I (Kilbourne's Masonic Mark Lives On in Sandusky)

I shot and edited Zack's piece on the Sandusky Masonic street design that aired tonight.

More to come.

Here are some stills given to me by Gary Miller.








Soon I'll post the package that aired and the entire interview with Mr. Miller.

Did anybody see the story? What did you think?

Thanks for watching!
-Billau

Attorney General Mark Dann Resigns

Elora's Light (Broadcast Piece)

Not sure how long our original piece will still have video with it on our website. Below is the broadcast piece that aired May 8, 2008 on 13 ABC Action News at 11.



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-Billau

Mother's Strength an Inspiration After Tragic Bear Attack

Susan Cenkus was spending time in Cherokee National Forest with her family in April of 2006. While on a hike with her daughter, Elora, and son, Luke, the three were attacked by a black bear. Susan and Luke were seriously injured by the bear, Elora was killed. Below are the four raw interview segments from time Lissa Guyton's time spent with the family.

Susan is a strong woman who's inspirational should be heard. Due to the length of the interview, we would never be able to share it with you on television. I've broken the interview into 4 segments, but it is presented in its entirety.

Part 1


Part 2


Part 3


Part 4


Susan has also created a youtube account called Elora's Light. She hopes someday to expand on the internet to give people a place to share their feelings in times of tragedy.

As always, thanks for watching!
-Billau

Spring is Here

I didn't work with a reporter today. I spent the morning at the station editing the noon show. The noon show is probably the most fun to edit. I got in at 9:30 and started putting stories together. Just when it looked like I might finish my work early (11:15), we've got breaking news and several of the pieces that I just finished working on are dropped from the show all together. Breaking news filled the first part of the show and I finished editing at 11:58. Two minutes to spare!

I don't believe viewers notice when a story gets dropped from the show. They have no reason to. But, when you spend time finding the video and then matching it to the producer's script, only to see it dropped from the show never to be seen, you can't help but feel you've wasted your time. The reality is, that's how news works. As photographers we're often sent to something heard on the scanner, only to get there and have a police officer tell us it's not worth it. Granted what we're sent to is often traumatic or life altering for those involved, we just can't use it for news. The biggest waste for photographers is when we are sent to a scene, shoot video, come back to the station, edit the video, only to have the story dropped. That's just the way it is.

I digress.

I actually logged on to post a pointless little weather video I shot today for Stan's weather segment. It's kind of a neat, close-up look at bees on a lilac bush. They look so happy and peaceful in the flowers, right before they fly over to my garage and bore a bunch of holes in it. Great. Enjoy the video.



As always, thanks for watching.
-Billau

Happy Monday

Nothing groundbreaking today. Just thought this poster was kind of funny. Snapped a shot of it while working on a story about changes to Planned Parenthood.



-Billau