Oh Shit

The beginning of a bad day ©Scott Sines — To me this is the definition of an "OH SHIT" moment. The fellow on the right was loading corn into the...

Just a place to stay

A magnet city for the homeless ©Scott Sines San Antonio has over 250 sunny days a year. The average low temperature in the winter is in the high 40s. It's about...

Trouble on the border

A burgeoning middle class makes its voice known ©Scott Sines Piedras Negras , Mexico-- The results of a hotly contested mayoral election were in and they looked rigged. In a close...

Words of wisdom

Take better pictures, write better stories ©Scott Sines When I started work in San Antonio I was in computer training with Maury Maverick Jr. A Texas legend he was making a...

Pictures make us witnesses to fast moving news

There are lessons in the hard pictures ©Scott Sines Bus Hijacking, San Antonio, TX, November 1985 -- These are hard pictures to look at but that's kind of the point....

Accountability

The Government said they had no troops in the area ©Scott Sines Kaibiles, The Peten, Guatemala, early 1980s -- About this time it seemed like every country in Central America had...

Bearing witness

Sometimes the best lessons are in the bad stuff ©Scott Sines — Sorting and editing through forty years of news pictures/stories I've got this group of spot/breaking news pictures that...

The Unknowns

©Scott Sines — Memphis is not Chicago or Detroit, or New Orleans but it set a record in 2016 for homicides. It routinely ranks high on every 'Dangerous City'...

Welcome to Arkansas

©Scott Sines — When you go over the Mississippi River on I-40 and get off going north toward the Arkansas Delta this sign is at the end of the...

Protect worker’s rights

©Scott Sines, Since it is the day — here’s a personal worker rights story — Late on a June afternoon in 1989 the World Prodigy ran aground on Brenton...