By Seth A. McConnell

Sometimes due to space issues images are not run in full.
Sometimes the images still work, but more often than not something is lost.

This mornings paper was a perfect example of this.

Saturday morning fellow photographer Steve McEnroe ventured out to Hermosa to cover the aftermath of Friday nights flash flood. Steve managed to capture this great image of a 1954 Chevy truck headlights deep in the flood water.

photo by Steve McEnroe/Journal staff
This shot, in my book, is fantastic. It really captures the moment in every way possible. It didn’t run in Sundays paper, for whatever reason, so I contrived a plan to get it in Thursday’s paper, Wednesday afternoon after I found the truck myself.
A before and after shot.

photo by Seth A. McConnell/Journal staff
After tromping into the middle of the field covered in slippery, smelly, sucking mud (you know the kind when you take a step your foot sinks in 3 inches and your instantly suctioned to the ground…) the light peaked through the clouds briefly and I got my shot.
Neither image was run in full in todays paper, losing the intended affect of both shots.

What are your thoughts on the images? Did they look better cropped in the paper or did they lose something? (If you want to critique, please do)

-S